Skipping a negative word flips respondents’ recorded opinions to the opposite

Evidence

Some respondents give the exact opposite of their true opinions about an issue because they miss a key word such as “no” or “not” in a statement. (This is why negatives are sometimes repeated in important communications: e.g., “You may not, repeat, NOT, stay out until 2:00 a.m. tonight!”’) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3989

Categorization

• CANDY: The repeated-NOT parenting example is a light, funny, shareable snippet.
• XREF: connects to: Pre-1962 survey phrasing ambiguously mapped opposition to integration. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1330