With time pressure, FP have been found to ask less questions, to conduct less thorough clinical examinations and to gave less lifestyle advice.
Interventions proven to increase response rates in other populations [ 3, 8] were evaluated in two RCTs, designed to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of three interventions: an incentive; the type of reminder (questionnaire or postcard); and reduced response burden (an abridged questionnaire with less questions) to improve health care professional response rates to postal questionnaires.
But now, thanks to new research, there's a less hypothetical question to consider: What if the would-be guardians of the public overestimated the demand for their supervisory services?
It seems simpler and less question-begging to say that we keep on working long hours and buying lots of stuff because, whatever the ultimate cause, we take less satisfaction in the occupations of non-commercial leisure.(Photo credit: AFP).
Critically, the question of whether Nellie will want to keep the baby for herself never comes up, allowing space for more nuanced, if less dramatic, questions to be raised.
We expect scientists working on other less sensitive questions to make clear predictions that avoid imputing value or emotion.
A later version of the experiment gave the participants less presumptive questions to choose from, such as, "Do you shy away from social interactions?" Participants preferred to ask these more diagnostic questions, showing only a weak bias towards positive tests.
When a product is labelled "80% less fat", the important question to ask is 80% less than what?
Interestingly enough, God seems to be the answer to less and less questions.
The increase in earnings due to skipping less questions is very similar for males and females when we control for PIAAC score in numeracy (between 2 and 3.5%, due to a decrease of one standard deviation in the proportion of skipped questions).
High receptivity marks credited to Miss Rose Gallagher, due less to love than to question of reporter who wanted to know if 32 was her heart or her bust.
