{
  "title": "Audit reversed survey item codes before combining them",
  "questions": [
    "What does agreeing with the clear-instructions statement mean to you?",
    "What does agreeing with the confusing-instructions statement mean to you?",
    "Which statement, if any, requires more effort to interpret?",
    "What experience are you using to interpret both statements?"
  ],
  "question_notes": [
    "Verify the favourable meaning of the positive item.",
    "Verify the opposite direction rather than guessing from a numeric code.",
    "Probe wording difficulty before recommending reverse-worded items.",
    "Check that both interpretations refer to a comparable experience."
  ],
  "answer_guidance": [
    {
      "question": 1,
      "format": "Optional short open text",
      "reason": "Verify the favourable meaning of the positive item.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 2,
      "format": "Optional short open text",
      "reason": "Verify the opposite direction rather than guessing from a numeric code.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 3,
      "format": "Optional short open text",
      "reason": "Probe wording difficulty before recommending reverse-worded items.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 4,
      "format": "Optional short open text",
      "reason": "Check that both interpretations refer to a comparable experience.",
      "optional": true
    }
  ],
  "respondent_instruction": "If nothing was unclear or difficult, say so. Skip questions about steps you did not experience; use not applicable where appropriate.",
  "field_protocol": {
    "send_when": "Before fielding a questionnaire containing opposite-direction statements, show the actual wording and all labels.",
    "decision_owner": "The questionnaire reviewer owns wording; the analyst owns the versioned code mapping.",
    "followup": "Ask volunteers to explain each item’s direction after revision and verify recoding against all five categories.",
    "response_handling": "Do not collect real sensitive answers for a mapping test. The numbered scale is a separate illustration, not a native field promise."
  },
  "editorial_sections": [],
  "note": "Examples to adapt. Not a validated instrument; manual editorial data, not a product import payload."
}