The Question Already Holds the Answer
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❓ “Are you still late for meetings these days?” — Whether you answer yes or no, “You used to be late” stays built in. There is only one of the three answers that removes what was planted. 🚫 Turn the sentence into a negative, and two things split apart: one disappears as soon as it is negated, while the other stays firm — the one that remains is the “presupposition.” Left as it is, both remain and cannot be told apart. 📋 At the end, choose the survey question that plants nothing in the respondent’s mind.
About this app
The question already holds the answer is an interactive lesson on presuppositions and leading questions. It shows how a question such as “Are you still late to meetings?” can imply that lateness happened before, regardless of a yes-or-no answer, then demonstrates how negation separates a buried assumption from information that merely followed. A final quiz asks users to identify a neutral survey question that does not steer the respondent toward a positive or negative answer.
Use cases
- Students learning language, reading, or critical thinking
- Teachers demonstrating presupposition and loaded questions
- Survey designers checking whether wording is neutral
- Readers practicing how to question assumptions in everyday language
Features
- Interactive yes-or-no example exposing a hidden assumption
- One-click denial that shows what survives negation
- Comparison of two sentence pairs involving meeting lateness
- Quiz for identifying a direction-neutral survey item
- Reset, next-step, retry, and sound controls