12 Answers to Exercises in Chapter 3
Exercise #1 – Supply the Probing Question
1. This answer may be positive, negative, or neutral and does not relate what the
interviewee thought of the President’s address. Ask, “What did you expect?”
4. Respondents, particularly younger ones, use apparently positive but vague words
5. Silence may indicate that the interviewee either does not have a teaching
7. This answer uses a popular but meaningless word “ton” when you are not asking for
weight. Ask, “How much did it cost?’
Exercise #2 – Identification of Questions
1. Open, primary, neutral,
3. Closed, primary, neutral, bipolar
5. Closed, probing, leading, loaded
Exercise #3 – What Are the Pitfalls in These Questions?
1. Unintentional bipolar
3. Tell me everything
5. Unintentional bipolar