The pilots, which included an interview with a leading quantum physicist and academics debating the ethics of WikiLeaks, suggest an inspired mix of Question Time, Game For A Laugh and Think Of A Number.
A mix of question formats was used (Likert scales, ordered categories, quantitative responses, binary responses, lists of yes/no's summed to create quantitative responses, and vignettes that asked the respondent to generate answers which were "checklisted" by the researcher and summed to give a quantitative response).
The town hall debate at Nashville's Belmont University offered a mix of questions from the studio audience and the internet.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and a candidate for president, had finished his hamburger and was fielding the usual mix of questions.
The most widely told story about college focuses obsessively on elite schools and answers a crazy mix of questions: How will we teach complex thinking and skills?
As a decorated veteran of my high-school quiz-bowl squad, I appreciate the mix of questions, which encompass science, history, literature, entertainment, current events, ephemeral nonsense, and such left-field fields as typography.
Mr. Parker, at quarterly sessions, answers a mix of questions from workers who have crowded into a meeting room at the Tempe, Ariz., headquarters and those sent by e-mail from around the country.
Instead the answer involves a complex mix of questions over funding, school performance and persuading youngsters university is for them.
It's actually possible to spend a considerable number of man-hours, carefully contemplating the right range and mix of questions and laboring over the precise language.
The quiz was hardly a comprehensive assessment of Americans' scientific knowledge, but it did include a mix of questions about things we should have learned in school and topics that have been in the news.
I know she will ask the right mix of questions that need to be asked so we can take a better measure of the the vice-presidential candidates and the experience and knowledge they bring (or don't bring) to the table.
