11.   The answer seems to be a qualified yes.

12.   To avoid this we can emphasize the need for honesty, or provide a filter question so that a low-prestige answer seems equally acceptable.

13.   And in studies asking if running rats behave like rats addicted to cocaine or morphine or other addictive drugs, the answer seems to be yes.

14.   And the answers always seemed to lie in Los Angeles.

15.   Answers would seem to come readily enough.

16.   At Ajinomoto, for instance, one shareholder said it looked as if two shareholders who asked lengthy questions were planted, and the answers from management seem rehearsed.

17.   At first blush the answer seems self-evident.

18.   Because Estrin was surrounded by people who were blazing new trails, the answer seemed predetermined.

19.   But the answer seems obvious.

20.   By now, Nechita has been through the interview process so many times that her answers seem reflexive, as when relating an oft-told anecdote.