Questions on Senate Reform
Fragment of a discussion from Course talk:POLI380JAN2011Owen/Survey/Political Institution Reform
True Deanie, the scale is arbitrary. Then again, lots of survey questions that try to gauge people's opinions use scales created by the pollster; perhaps if we assigned values to each number (0 - no knowledge, 1 - minimal knowledge, etc. etc.) we could narrow the scale down a bit. I'm just thinking that if our question is going to be "What would you like to see happen to the Senate?" Abolish, Elected, etc. etc., it'd be interesting to see how Canadians actually rate their understanding of this somewhat behind-the-scenes institution.