On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:19:35 -0000, msb@xxxxxxx (Mark Brader) wrote:
. . .
Fran Kemmish writes:
I didn't participate in the survey as I was not able to enter some of
the mandatory information. The opening form has a check box for "My
parents are native speakers of English" but doesn't allow for my
situation: my father was a native speaker, but my mother was not.
That would just be a "no", wouldn't it? Still a bad design, because
one of the two possible answers is entered by default.
. . .
There are not two possible answers. "My parents are native speakers
of English" is marked as a required response.
.
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