It depends on whether you end up covering all of the possibilities. It’s fine to ask something like this (though it’s phrased badly and confusing):
Which of the following movies have you seen?
Iron Man
The Hulk
Both
Neither
But this would not be good:
Have you seen Iron Man?
Yes, and I liked it
No, I hate comic book movies
The point is to not have any respondents who could not truthfully select one of the options in a single-punch list, or at least one option in a multi-punch list. The above question offers no response for folks who haven’t seen Iron Man but don’t hate comic book movies, or folks who have seen Iron Man but didn’t like it.
Well, technically the question about children in the draft doesn’t do that (except for ambiguities such as how to count dead children, or people who are exactly indifferent about having children in the future), but I still think it divides personspace in a weird way.
Yes, technically there’s no excluded middle problem there. Instead, it’s gathering information about future child-wanting only for those with no children, which is a different problem.
It depends on whether you end up covering all of the possibilities. It’s fine to ask something like this (though it’s phrased badly and confusing):
Iron Man
The Hulk
Both
Neither
But this would not be good:
Yes, and I liked it
No, I hate comic book movies
The point is to not have any respondents who could not truthfully select one of the options in a single-punch list, or at least one option in a multi-punch list. The above question offers no response for folks who haven’t seen Iron Man but don’t hate comic book movies, or folks who have seen Iron Man but didn’t like it.
Well, technically the question about children in the draft doesn’t do that (except for ambiguities such as how to count dead children, or people who are exactly indifferent about having children in the future), but I still think it divides personspace in a weird way.
Yes, technically there’s no excluded middle problem there. Instead, it’s gathering information about future child-wanting only for those with no children, which is a different problem.