(The question was provided to him by Fred Thompson, then the committee's Republican counsel, later a United States senator and a successful movie and television actor, currently a cable-TV pitchman selling reverse mortgages to the elderly).
One answer to that question was provided by the billionaire double act of Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google's founders, in 2004, when pressed about their vision of the future by the former Newsweek journalist Steven Levy.
The third variable that measures political participation is grassroots election participation; a question was provided as below: "Did you vote in the last village committee or neighborhood committee election?" Answers are "voted" (1) and "not voted" (0).
All the information needed to answer the question was provided in the question stem, and it could clearly be answered simply by variable identification, independently of understanding the material that had been presented earlier.
Since it was believed that the decision strategies are unfamiliar to many respondents an introductionary question was provided first and the respondents were lead to think about their decision making way in general.
A further resource for answering the third research question was provided by the final report in which the teachers were asked whether they liked the CATs and what they think about their usefulness.
