One of the questions, put on there as a test to ensure the children understood the format, was “I eat breakfast with Martin Luther King Jr every morning.” (The lesson mentioned him, among others.) They were expecting 1s, but the average answer was 2.
Perhaps the “strongly” in the “disagree strongly” gloss is being understood to require an emotional reaction? It’s not a phrase I’d normally use to describe an understanding that something I don’t particularly care about is factually wrong.
I may be misremembering it- 1 might have been “false,” 2 “mostly false,” 3 “neither true nor false,” 4 “mostly true,” and 5 “true.” I do remember that at the time I thought it was a disastrous showing that mostly invalidated the results of their study (or should have had a far more prominent role in their data analysis).
Perhaps the “strongly” in the “disagree strongly” gloss is being understood to require an emotional reaction? It’s not a phrase I’d normally use to describe an understanding that something I don’t particularly care about is factually wrong.
I may be misremembering it- 1 might have been “false,” 2 “mostly false,” 3 “neither true nor false,” 4 “mostly true,” and 5 “true.” I do remember that at the time I thought it was a disastrous showing that mostly invalidated the results of their study (or should have had a far more prominent role in their data analysis).