Leading and loaded questions assume that your survey respondents think, behave and act in a particular way. The questions take a manipulative tone and force them to give an answer based on these assumptions. Leading and loading questions are framed with the future consequences in mind. E.g like "have you stopped eating sweets"? or “What was your experience in the worlds largest conference venue"? Social scientists have have several techniques in researching bias, however its still very hard to measure. Media bias was also omnipresent during polling as the world found during the Trump-Biden faceoff. The Fortune after a recent survey in 2023 concluded that half of Americans indicated they believe national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform or persuade the public to adopt a particular point of view through their reporting. Was this research conduced using loaded or leading questions? Hence the question.

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