yea-saying

Filter questions: eliminate respondents who are guessing or yea-saying.

Arnold & Porter Webinar on False Advertising Rebecca Tushnet 2009

But there is an intuition out there that yea-saying is often subject to basic plausibility checks — at some point, some yea-sayers will say no.

Fortune favors the bold Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Filter questions: eliminate respondents who are guessing or yea-saying.

Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

But there is an intuition out there that yea-saying is often subject to basic plausibility checks — at some point, some yea-sayers will say no.

Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Possible objections: (1) there was yea-saying to closed-ended questions.

Arnold & Porter Webinar on False Advertising Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Possible objections: (1) there was yea-saying to closed-ended questions.

Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Comment: This is not obvious as a matter of formal logic: pure yea-saying would seem to be the same no matter what the control is, if people were faulty respondents in perfectly uniform ways.

Fortune favors the bold Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Comment: This is not obvious as a matter of formal logic: pure yea-saying would seem to be the same no matter what the control is, if people were faulty respondents in perfectly uniform ways.

Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

On the whole, nay-sayers tend to be right more often than yea-sayers, which is why I'm skeptical when nay-sayers think their hit ratio will immediately translate to their yea-saying.

Report: Obama Meets Unconditionally With George Will, Bill Kristol, David Brooks 2009

Kerouac later wrote, 'All my other current friends were intellectuals ... [but Cassady] was a wild yea-saying overburst of American Joy.'

Happy Birthday, On the Road! Bill Crider 2007