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What is the importance of pretesting questions and instruments? What are risks in not doing this? Provide an example that illustrates your response.

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Pre-testing of questions and instruments can help determine strengths and weaknesses of the questionnaire:
- The survey is measuring what it is intended to measure
- The survey respondents understand the questions and they do not have any problems in understanding the structure, language or contents of the questionnaire.

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