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A form that asks for your honest opinion, then punishes honesty with more boxes.
means A set of written questions used to gather information or opinions from a lot of people at once.
from Borrowed straight from French, where 'questionnaire' was built from 'question' plus the noun-forming suffix '-aire'. French had been using it for a formal list of questions since the 1700s; English adopted the word, spelling and all, in the 1800s, keeping that slightly stiff, bureaucratic French air it still carries today.
- french import
- borrowed the word, kept the bureaucracy
- likert scale
- invented 1932, trapped humanity in five-point feelings
- response bias
- people lie more on paper than aloud
- longest ever
- census forms can exceed 50 pages easily