The phrase "control question" is correct and usable in written English.
Generally, you use a control question when you want to test if a respondent's answer is accurate or reliable. For example, you might ask someone "What is your address?" and then follow it with a control question, such as "Did you say 1 Main Street?".
POLYGRAPH Polygraphers use what is called the Control Question Test, which mixes questions about a crime with control questions.
The researchers dealt with this potential bias by inserting a control question on ear-buzzing, for which the rates of the two groups were the same.
So NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre snubbed him publicly, despite their substantive agreement on the core gun control question — whether to focus on people or on guns.
The article, which argues that the Control Question Test is a disaster, was credited to John J. Furedy, a psychologist at the University of Toronto.
"How to Live," by Sarah Bakewell (Other Press; $25) This charming biography shuffles incidents from Montaigne's life and essays into twenty thematic chapters, each offering a tentative answer to the title's implied question ("Give up control"; "Question everything").
This charming biography shuffles incidents from Montaigne's life and essays into twenty thematic chapters, each offering a tentative answer to the title's implied question ("Give up control"; "Question everything").
A lot of the details we are asking for are control questions.
The designed comprehensive VDT workplace checklist contains 24 areas with 140 control questions.
Innocent people may be more aroused by the relevant questions than the control questions for a variety reasons.
After a few control questions, you grill your willing test subject and are given the potentially damning verdict.
With the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer, for example, subjects are asked several control questions, like the color of the walls, to gauge normal vocal response levels.
