Editing Leading question (section)

==Example==
Leading questions may often be answerable with a yes or no (though not all [[yes–no question]]s are leading).<ref name="Melilli" /> Leading questions are distinct from [[loaded question]]s, which are objectionable because they contain [[implicit assumption]]s<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Foster |first1=Stephen William |title=What Is "the Question"?: What Is "the Question"? |journal=Anthropology and Humanism |date=December 2013 |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=146–159 |doi=10.1111/anhu.12015}}</ref> (such as "Have you stopped beating your wife?" indirectly asserting that the subject both ''has'' a wife, and ''has'' beaten her at some point).

Leading question:
"Mr. Smith's car was traveling 20 miles over the speed limit when he lost control of his vehicle and slammed into the victim's car, right?" (Leads the witness to the conclusion that Mr. Smith was speeding, and as a result lost control of his vehicle, leading to the accident, which was clearly his fault.)

Neutral question:
"How fast would you estimate Mr. Smith's car was traveling before the collision?" 

Even neutral questions can lead witnesses to answers based on word choice, response framing, assumptions made, and form. The words "fast", "collision" and "How", for example, can alter speed estimates provided by respondents.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Loftus |first1=Elizabeth F. |last2=Zanni |first2=Guido |title=Eyewitness testimony: The influence of the wording of a question |journal=Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society |date=January 1975 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=86–88 |doi=10.3758/BF03336715|doi-access=free }}</ref>

When someone asks a leading question, they expect the other person to agree with the leading question.

"Our company has the best sandwiches, right?"

They expect the answer to agree that the sandwiches are the best.