I'd guess asking about an obviously true statement causes people to update their priors about the answer in a way that asking about personality doesn't.
In other words, 10% of people think about it a bit, and say "well, most books aren't written in Japanese, I guess I disagree"? This is exactly how I think about personality profile questions, and also the reason why I posted this. (However, there is clearly a sampling bias here).
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I think it's more like, the less obvious it is *why* the question is being asked, the more noise you introduce to the results. Intuitive defense against trick questions, maybe?
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This could be. I would expect a fudged answer to be "slightly agree", not "slightly disagree"... but neither I nor my respondents are normal.
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