Please help me understand some wording.

[Ezra]

The questions are:

1. I am verbal
2. I am non-verbal or I am in speech therapy.

I'm not completely non-verbal (and that's what it's aking) but I am in speech therapy.

So if they were separate questions like:

I am non-verbal - answer: No

I an in speech therapy - answer: Yes

What's confusing to me is the "or" part.
Like if I check number 2, it's like I'm lying about being non-verbal but telling the truth about being in speech therapy.

 

[tree]

When the question includes the word "or,"
then a person is not lying if one of the possibilities
applies.

I don't know why the two are batched together.

A 'yes' to either one means "yes" is the correct and truthful
answer to that question. That's how the question is set up.

A "no" to both questions, in #2, of course means you should
answer 'No.'

 

[the_tortoise]

Questions like that can confuse me as well, it would be clearer if they asked about speech therapy separately.

I got stuck on a lot of similar questions when I was doing neuropsych testing.

I also usually abandon online research surveys about autism when they have a lot of multi-part questions where my answer for each part is different/opposite but I'm only allowed to give one answer. Especially when there is no "or" in those questions -- when the parts are joined together with "and" so it's impossible for me to give an accurate answer. (e.g. For a true/false question asking about two things where one thing is true for me and the other is false, I'm giving an inaccurate/incorrect answer no matter what I do, since there is no way for the researcher to know that I would answer the two parts of the question in two very different ways.)

 

[tree]

No, you wouldn't be giving an incorrect answer, if
that's the way the researcher has framed the question.

It may offend your sense of truth, but for the purpose
of the stated question, you wouldn't be lying or misrepresenting
anything.

Example:
If, for some reason, I asked
'Do you have a bike?'

If you did, and answered "yes," that would be true.
It would also answer my question.

Suppose I wrote the question
"Do you have either a red or a blue bike?"

If you had a red one, the answer would be 'yes.'
If you had a blue one, the answer would be 'yes.'
If you had a green bike, the answer would be 'no.'

 

[the_tortoise]

No, you wouldn't be giving an incorrect answer, if
that's the way the researcher has framed the question.

It may offend your sense of truth, but for the purpose
of the stated question, you wouldn't be lying or misrepresenting
anything.

Example:
If, for some reason, I asked
'Do you have a bike?'

If you did, and answered "yes," that would be true.
It would also answer my question.

Suppose I wrote the question
"Do you have either a red or a blue bike?"

If you had a red one, the answer would be 'yes.'
If you had a blue one, the answer would be 'yes.'
If you had a green bike, the answer would be 'no.'

I agree with you. I may be confused by "or" questions but I agree they can be answered accurately. The questions I am unable to answer correctly/accurately do not clearly separate the parts of the question.

If the two statements are joined together with the word "and" or otherwise indicate they go together and are not two possible options but one multi-part option, then if my answer to each of the joined parts is different but I am only allowed to offer one answer that applies to both parts I will not be able to give an accurate answer.

For example, if the question/statement to be answered as true or false is, "I am very sensitive to tastes/textures/smells and I am unable to eat a variety of foods" the answer is "yes/true" to the taste/texture/smell part of the question and "false" to the inability to eat a variety of foods question.

If the question/statement to be answered as true or false is, "I find it difficult interacting with people I am not familiar with, I do not enjoy meeting new people," then my answer to the first part is true but my answer to the second part is false.

I have seen many, many questions like this, where whoever wrote the question makes assumptions about the end result of a certain experience, or appears to assume that two logically/categorically related experiences will always occur together.

 

[tree]

Two points are involved.

A. Some researchers batch questions because their study is a general one, where results
can be grouped.
B. Some researchers write questions that are unclear, and could use additional
study themselves on communicating.

 

[Streetwise]

The questions are:

1. I am verbal
2. I am non-verbal or I am in speech therapy.

I'm not completely non-verbal (and that's what it's aking) but I am in speech therapy.

So if they were separate questions like:

I am non-verbal - answer: No

I an in speech therapy - answer: Yes

What's confusing to me is the "or" part.
Like if I check number 2, it's like I'm lying about being non-verbal but telling the truth about being in speech therapy.

question number two ( in speech therapy )means you are still sort of non-verbal but working on it speech therapy for some people can last a long time ,it depends on the level of brain damage for instance if you've been in a car accident

 

[BraidedPony]

They should have Aspies write the questions or at least be asked for feedback.