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Dr. Gore is conducting a survey examining people's opinions toward funding for collegiate athletics on his campus. He notices that several participants agree with all 12 questions. This could be an example of all of the following EXCEPT:

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Fence sitting

Step-by-step explanation:

In psychological research, the term fence-sitting is defined as a specific situation that generally happens when the respondents or the participants being selected by researcher play it safely by answering the questions in the middle-scaled form for each question in the given interview or questionnaire.

Fence sitting involves "forced-choice format" which refers to the question type whereby the participants give answers or opinions by choosing the best of the given two or more options.

As per the question, the given statement signifies the "fence-sitting".

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