HJaving been responsible for conducting polls for aalmost 20 years, I ca only comment that the best way of asking a question like thti is not through discrete numbers or words---a line with one end labled "Agree completely" and the other labled "Totally disagree", wher the one taking the poll puts a mark along the line. It's not a perfect system----the pollstertill has to analyze the data, but it avoids silly agruments like the one tthat's going on here.