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Exercises include questions that contain a flaw. Identify the flaw and rewrite the question, following the guidelines presented in this section.
How long have you studied for this examination?
A question is given as follows:
“How long have you studied for this examination?”
We are supposed to identify the flaw involved in the above question and rewrite the question following the survey guidelines.
The given question contains a word “how long” which can be measured in hours, days etc. As the scale of measurement is not specified, the question is confusing.
We can rewrite the above question as follows:
“How many days did you study for this examination?”