{"id":1494,"date":"2011-02-23T09:21:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T22:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2011-02-23T09:21:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T22:21:22","slug":"genuine-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/02\/genuine-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Genuine Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been to my ip provider&#8217;s website to lodge a complaint after 2 days of emails not arriving. Their online complaint form has many fields (too many in my opinion but I&#8217;ll let that go!) and most are marked compulsory.<\/p>\n<p>One questions, marked as compulsory to answer is &#8220;Would you like ABC to contact you? Yes Email Address&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words I have to say yes I want you to contact me in order to submit the form! Why bother asking if I have no choice but to agree to it?<\/p>\n<p>So if you are preparing any sort of form or questionnaire, make sure you give people a choice rather than pretending to give a choice. If you are not going to give them a choice about something, be honest enough to say there is no choice &#8211; anything else just makes you look foolish and\/or deceitful.<\/p>\n<p>Use your words and questions wisely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been to my ip provider&#8217;s website to lodge a complaint after 2 days of emails not arriving. Their online complaint form has many fields (too many in my opinion but I&#8217;ll let that go!) and most are marked compulsory. One questions, marked as compulsory to answer is &#8220;Would you like ABC to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,60],"tags":[158,1172,1075],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-info-tools","category-writing","tag-choice","tag-form","tag-question"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}