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Yes.

In the context of this poll, Q3 could've been asked first with no definition provided, and without a "back" button. Then, after the top-level question, you can start honing in on potentially-priming questions aimed at figuring out people's policy preferences and perceptions.




If you lead with the soundbite question, you end up distorting responses to all subsequent questions.

Designing meaningful/informative polls is very hard.




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