Although the creation of tests might seem to be a statistics-based science, the drafting of questions is much like other writing.
The question about Mr. Liu is in a draft list of questions that are to be posed to prospective jurors, according to a letter from Ms. Hou's lawyers that was filed in court on Tuesday.
This draft set of questions captured detailed information about deductible amounts, number of visits and other dollar amounts covered by insurance, and whether the respondent's complementary medicine use was reduced due to limited insurance coverage.
From this, we developed a draft set of questions for the girls and the adult informants, which we discussed and adapted with input from the three trained, highly experienced, local female fieldworkers (JM, SN, and NM) who would collect the data.
Fifty-two test items composed of 158 questions were written, representing the first draft of the question bank.
After Mr. Williams read the draft of his question, Bill Sammon, the managing editor of Fox News's Washington bureau, said he had concerns.
The process of subset generation using the inclusion/exclusion criteria yielded 27 eligible items, which are considered to comprise the final draft of the question bank.
These items were eventually excluded from the final draft of the question bank because they did not meet the inclusion criteria, but such an unexplainable disagreement between the reviewers is striking.
Indeed, the draft posed dozens of questions for the public and the financial industry to address, leaving the window open for significant changes.
