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In the unobtrusive version, the affirmative action statement is embedded in a list of other potentially objectionable items about taxes, pollution and so on.
Our unobtrusive measure (described below) allows us to discern respondents' opposition to affirmative action without requiring them to reveal their opposition to the survey interviewer.
First, respondents were asked the unobtrusive measure of opposition to affirmative action.
The answer to this question is again affirmative.
As noted above, the party position on the status of the state and on affirmative action as a principle is decisive.
In that case equality would not depend on the fortuity that an affirmative defense is in play.
We show that the answer to this question is in the affirmative.
His affirmative conclusions on all these matters are not unrelated, but build on one another in important ways.
Given our assumption that a choice is a brain process, one might think that the answer would have to be in the affirmative.
Three considerations may be thought to favour an affirmative answer.
After 1000 ms, the affirmative assertions continued to facilitate affirmative-related terms, but the negated assertions no longer did so.
Immanence and reference both have the capacity to be either critical or affirmative.
However, the link between affirmative response to these items and frank psychotic symptoms remains unclear.
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