What makes a question bad? Develop three examples of bad questions. Then, using the information in Exhibit 8.4, rewrite your examples so they could be judged good questions.

Guidelines for Evaluating the Adequacy of Questions 1. Questions should be simple, straightforward, and avoid technical or sophisticated words. 2. Questions should avoid qualifying phrases. 3. Question response categories (scale points) should be mutually exclusive. 4. Questions and scale statements should be meaningful to the respondent. 5. Questions and scales should avoid an arrangement of response categories that might bias the respondent's answers. 6. Questions and scales should not have double-barreled items