The other evidence for this read is that it is very very common practice to pretest a survey wording, asking them to think out loud as they go through it - for exactly this reason, to let the researcher make sure people are interpreting the question the way they meant it. Pew is a well respected research outfit; I'd be very surprised if …
The other evidence for this read is that it is very very common practice to pretest a survey wording, asking them to think out loud as they go through it - for exactly this reason, to let the researcher make sure people are interpreting the question the way they meant it. Pew is a well respected research outfit; I'd be very surprised if they had skipped this (and if those detailed tests had shown a large chunk of respondents trying to parse whether an option implied something more like consubstantiation than transubstantiation, they would change the wording)
The other evidence for this read is that it is very very common practice to pretest a survey wording, asking them to think out loud as they go through it - for exactly this reason, to let the researcher make sure people are interpreting the question the way they meant it. Pew is a well respected research outfit; I'd be very surprised if they had skipped this (and if those detailed tests had shown a large chunk of respondents trying to parse whether an option implied something more like consubstantiation than transubstantiation, they would change the wording)