Presser saw that, while "not allow" and "forbid" might literally mean the same thing, the difference in the connotations of the words — the intimidating, legalistic tone of "forbid," compared with the gentler, parental tone of "not allow" — was significant enough to reverse a person's stated opinion on an issue and alter the majority result of a survey.
In addition, previous research indicates that the SES-health relationship may differ in different health indicators (Huurre et al. 2005), resulting from the differences in the connotations, properties of the measure of each health indicator, and effects of the external social factors.
Cultural differences in the health of one's reference group, different expectations of one's health, and differences in response style, or in the connotation of the symptom questions, may play a role, so that it is uncertain whether the symptom scales function equivalently in all three groups.
The one that finally worked was, "Which of your resources are threatened (menacées), and by what?" Maybe it was the emphasis on resources instead of threats, or maybe it was the slight difference in connotation for menace and menacées.
Thesauruses group words very loosely by general meaning, and there is often a significant difference in connotation between them.
Although small differences were noted in the positive connotations reported by respondents in Iran, Portugal, and the UK, they were not statistically significant.
In Russia, the connotations are "treatment" and "disability".
In order to illustrate the connotation of quasi-log concavity, we give four examples as follows.
The connotation 'unexplained' in medically unexplained symptoms indicates that the symptoms are not explainable from the reductionist disease framework [ 40].
The connotation of each plan in the main system space is analyzed.
