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Dr. Jewell is interested in measuring people's attitudes toward proposed tax cuts. One of his items reads, "People who support cutting taxes are not well informed about how the government works." What is the problem with this questionA)It is a forced-choice question.B)It is a double-barreled question.C)It has a double negative.D)It is a leading question.

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Answer: it is a LEADING QUESTION.

Explanation: A leading question can be defined as a question that suggests the answer or that contains the information for which the examiner is looking. This question prompts the answer needed. They are undesirable as they prompt false or slanted information.

His statement "People who support cutting taxes are not well informed about how the government works." suggests something which may be true or not about people who support cutting taxes.

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Answer:it is a leading question

Explanation:a leading question is usually questions that are asked in a clever and indirect way that it pushes, provoke or trigger respondent to answer. Leading questions are usually persuasive,mostly rhetorical and undesirable to the respondent at most times. Leading questions do prompt respondent to give an answer that is usually fake and mostly false and do has the answer embedded in the question most times.

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