ABSTRACT

Answers to questions are made unreliable, not just by asking instruments 1 but, also, as pointed out in this Chapter and the next, by settings in which asking and answering occur. Asking settings are consequential and contribute to The Problem because settings—as is true for instruments, as well as askers 2 —are stimuli and reinforcers that skew answers into Category One or Category Two. Generally, each asking setting or situation generates answers that differ from answers to the same or similar questions in other settings.