Rewrite a Consultation Question
Remove supplied leading wording and separate two preferences into answerable items.
Supplied materials
- Original fictional centre draft: “Do you agree our wonderful new art-and-sport weekends should replace boring quiet hours?” Answer boxes yes/no only. Proposed alternatives: keep current quiet hours; add weekend art sessions; add weekend sport sessions. No response data are supplied. This is a paper design exercise, not an actual consultation.
Learn the idea
Question wording influences what a response can mean. Praise and negative labels can push readers toward an answer. A question joining art, sport, and replacement of quiet hours bundles several decisions; a person could favor one and oppose another. Improving wording means making the choice clear, not manipulating people toward a preferred outcome.
A neutral design can ask one decision at a time, specify the period, and include a way to express uncertainty or another relevant choice. Accessibility affects who can respond: plain language, spoken reading, and paper options can reduce some barriers. None of these features alone proves a resulting voluntary survey is representative of all centre users.
- Underline the evaluative words wonderful and boring.
- List the separate decisions bundled in the draft.
- Write one neutral item about adding art sessions and another about sport sessions.
- Add a separate item about replacing quiet hours and explain what paper or spoken options would help.
See the method in action
“For the next three months, should the centre add weekend art sessions? Support / oppose / unsure. Ask the same separately for sport. Then ask whether any current quiet-hour sessions should be replaced, with keep all / replace some / unsure. Paper copies and spoken reading reduce digital and reading barriers, while sampling reach still needs review.”
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See the answer and explanation
Separate art, sport, and replacing quiet hours into distinct items.
Distinct items let respondents express different preferences about the three decisions. Emphasis or narrower recruitment does not fix bundling.
Take it further
Changed proposal: art sessions would be added without replacing quiet hours. Model reasoning: “Remove the replacement assumption and state that art would be additional. The wording should reflect the actual proposal; retaining replacement language would ask about a different decision.”
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