Italian: artefattoEnglish translation: artefact 
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Medical - Medical: Pharmaceuticals / psychiatry | | Italian term or phrase: artefatto | A response from a questionnaire answered by psychiatrists, about drugs used to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: "è un artefatto indotto dalla domanda".
There are some typos in my source text, so perhaps 'artefatto' should read 'antefatto' - but that doesn't seem to help.
The obvious translation "it is an artefact induced by the question" doesn't mean anything much to me. |
| | | artefact | Explanation:
This is quite a common use of the word "artefact". We may say that an apparent tendency in a statistical analysis is an "artefact" of, e.g. the coding or grouping, or, in this case, that an apparent trend in the results of a survey are an "artefact" of the way the question was posed. (Experiments have shown that you can produce vastly different results in surveys by posing the questions in different, albeit logically equivalent, ways.) |
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Richard Benham
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Jane, as "artefatto" also means "false, contrived, stilted" etc., I'm wondering whether the reply means something on the lines of it being a leading question.
Just a thought.
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| artefact
Explanation:
This is quite a common use of the word "artefact". We may say that an apparent tendency in a statistical analysis is an "artefact" of, e.g. the coding or grouping, or, in this case, that an apparent trend in the results of a survey are an "artefact" of the way the question was posed. (Experiments have shown that you can produce vastly different results in surveys by posing the questions in different, albeit logically equivalent, ways.)
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