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Answer:
They are written in this manner in order to to reduce the influence of acquiescent bias (responding).
Explanation:
Acquiescence bias (responding) is a category of response bias in which respondents to a survey have a tendency to agree with all the questions or to indicate a positive connotation. Acquiescence is sometimes referred to as "yea-saying" and is the tendency of a respondent to agree with a statement when in doubt.
By formating the Likert scale so that in one half agreeing with means that the person has the variables measured and the other half means that the variable is not measured avoides acquiescent bias (responding).
The answer is a cultural meaning of illness. In this sense, people perceived the gay cancer is a kind of disease for homosexuals. They based this idea on the number of people dying from the said disease and from the conservative belief that men and women should be attracted to opposite gender and not the same sex.
In this case, the president would be elected by the House of Representatives.
The House of Representatives could then vote on the three (in practice: 2) candidates who got the highest number of electoral votes.
