pened, compared with 12 percent in 1992. The drop is attributed to a change in the question meant to gauge denial, which analysts said contained a confusing double neg- ative that led some respondents to answer the opposite of what they intended or to answer "not sure" because they did not un- derstand the question. The original question was, "Does it seem possible or does it seem impossible to you that the Nazi extermination of the Jews never happened?" Burns Roper, the now-retired chairman of the Roper group, ex- plained that questioners were at- tempting to avoid phrasing that would encourage a positive re- sponse. The new question asked, "Does it seem possible to you that the Nazi extermination of the Jews never happened, or do you feel certain that it happened?" In the new poll, 91 percent of those questioned said they were certain the Holocaust happened, The drop is attributed to a change in the question meant to gauge denial. compared with 65 percent in the original survey. The results of the original sur- vey had been questioned since they were released in April 1993 and were officially disavowed by Mr. Roper himself in May 1994. "We should never have ap- proved the question, and we cer- tainly never should have written it," he told a conference of pro- fessional pollsters. The results of the original sur- vey had been viewed by some as shocking evidence that neo-Nazi Holocaust deniers had had a sig- nificant impact on American be- liefs. There were reports that neo-Nazi groups even cited the AJCommittee poll to encourage their supporters. But the new poll found that only about half of deniers sur- veyed and 4 percent of those un- sure had ever heard denial claims. The denial question was writ- ten by the Roper group. The recent Roper poll was the result of in-person interviews with 991 adults across the coun- try. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. 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