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   Text messaging is a surprisingly good way to receive candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study to be presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. “The preliminary（初步的）results of our study suggest that people are more likely to disclose sensitive information via text messages than in voice interviews,” says Fred Conrad, a psychologist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.

    “This is sort of surprising,” says Conrad, “since many people thought that texting would decrease the likelihood of disclosing sensitive information because it creates a persistent, visual record of questions and answers that others might see on your phone and in the cloud.”

    With text, the researchers also found that people were less likely to engage in “satisficing”--- a survey industry term referring to the common practice of giving good enough, easy answers. “We believe people give more precise answers via texting because there's just not the time pressure in a largely asynchronous（非同步的）mode like text that there is in phone interviews, ” says Conrad. “As a result, respondents are able to take longer to arrive at more accurate answers.”

    Conrad conducted the study with Michael Schober, a professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research. “We're in the early stages of analyzing our findings,” says Schober. “But so far it seems that texting may reduce some respondents' tendency to shade the truth or to present themselves in the best possible light in an interview, even when they know it's a human interviewer they are communicating with via text. What we cannot yet be sure of is who is most likely to be disclosive in text. Is it different for frequent texters, or generational, for example? ”

    For the study, the researchers recruited approximately 600 iPhone-users through Google Ads, offering them iTunes Store rewards to participate in the study. Their goals were to see whether responses to the same questions differed depending on several variables(可变因素)whether the questions were asked via text or voice, whether a human or a computer asked the questions, and whether the environment, including the presence of other people and the likelihood of multitasking, affected the answers.

32. The underlined word “candid” in Para.1 probably means       .

    A. straightforward     B. doubtful  C. general      D. imaginary

33. We can learn from the passage that       . 

A. people fond of text messaging are more honest

B. texting will give away less sensitive information

C. different variables might affect the responses of messaging

D. about 600 iPhone users have been awarded iTunes by researchers

34. Compared with phone interviews, texting has the advantage that people could       .          

A. present their best to the interviewers

B. have more time to make a reply

C. pay less for sending a message

D. enjoy more freedom of speech

35. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Texting Downs Responses         B. Texting Exposes Identity

C. Texting Benefits Interviewees      D. Texting Ups Truthfulness

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ACBD

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