Patients will be asked how they feel before and after treatment, and how satisfied they were with their care.
Perhaps more significantly, 2012 saw the inclusion of a question on the National Student Survey asking students how satisfied they were with the services provided by their union.
For a third experiment, participants were asked how satisfied they were with (a) the city of Amsterdam and (b) the mayor of Amsterdam.
One was a survey of 1.3 million Americans done over four years by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which asked people about their health and how satisfied they were with their lives.
Participants were asked to rate how satisfied they were with the sex during the first six months of their relationships, and to compare that to how they felt at the time of the study.
In the survey, business leaders and economists were asked how satisfied they were "with the efforts of world political leaders to promote a better understanding of the benefits of an open international trade system," a question that took for granted that there were significant benefits.
Researchers looked at data for more than 300,000 people in Britain from the past three years who had been asked how satisfied they were with their lives, whether they felt what they did was worthwhile, and their levels of happiness and anxiety.
GENERAL STANLEY McCHRYSTAL, America's commander in Afghanistan, and Karl Eikenberry, its ambassador there, turned up on Capitol Hill this week to tell congressmen how satisfied they were with Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 more American troops into the fray.
Yet when 27,000 Americans who bought cars late last year were asked how satisfied they were with their purchases, Hyundai of South Korea tied for first place with Japan's Nissan, according to a report published on June 4th by Strategic Vision, a market-research firm.
