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mine-thine questions

French translation: questions choix du moindre des maux, comparatif entre patients

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English term or phrase:mine-thine questions
French translation:questions choix du moindre des maux, comparatif entre patients
Entered by: Drmanu49

15:05 Apr 10, 2015
English to French translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
English term or phrase: mine-thine questions
Bonjour,

Sur l'obésité. J'ai un tableau indiquant le pourcentage de personnes obèses qui préféreraient avoir différents handicaps plutôt que de redevenir obèse. Et j'ai cette phrase, je ne comprends pas trop le concept de mine-thine questions...

Merci de votre aide !

47 Patients who had lost 45 kg for >3 yrs asked *** ‘mine-thine’ questions *** on morbid obesity vs normal weight with a disability or money
Isabelle Cluzel
France
Local time: 08:58
questions choix du moindre des maux, comparatif entre patients
Explanation:
They asked "mine-thine" questions, and participants were "asked to identify their own worst handicap or disability. This handicap ("mine") is then paired with other disabilities ("thine"). . . The mine-thine choices consisted of seven forced choices between morbid obesity and being normal weight with each of the following: needing a hearing aid (deaf), very bad acne, heart disease, unable to read (dyslexic), being diabetic (requiring insulin), being legally blind, and having one leg amputated. Patients were told: 'In the following questions, being morbidly obese is paired with being of normal weight with a disability. Choose the one you would prefer to have in each pair if both were permanent.'"
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Drmanu49
France
Local time: 08:58
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2questions choix du moindre des maux, comparatif entre patients
Drmanu49
4des questions qui me concernent et te concernent
Lina Scarpellini (X)
3 -1des questions d'aborder le subject qui leur est sensible
tanglsus


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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
questions choix du moindre des maux, comparatif entre patients


Explanation:
They asked "mine-thine" questions, and participants were "asked to identify their own worst handicap or disability. This handicap ("mine") is then paired with other disabilities ("thine"). . . The mine-thine choices consisted of seven forced choices between morbid obesity and being normal weight with each of the following: needing a hearing aid (deaf), very bad acne, heart disease, unable to read (dyslexic), being diabetic (requiring insulin), being legally blind, and having one leg amputated. Patients were told: 'In the following questions, being morbidly obese is paired with being of normal weight with a disability. Choose the one you would prefer to have in each pair if both were permanent.'"

Drmanu49
France
Local time: 08:58
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 5453
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agree  PLR TRADUZIO (X): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22686550
9 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  B D Finch
1 day 23 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
des questions qui me concernent et te concernent


Explanation:
Mine and thine are forms of the possessive pronouns referring to me (mine) and you (thine for thou).
They are used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with the speaker.


    https://books.google.ca/books?id=SW8XAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&dq=mine-thine+questions+%2B+idiom&source=bl&ots=7rMJxbCsQE&sig=tXvgqoH69CpE
    https://books.google.ca/books?id=e5UAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=mine-thine+idiom&source=bl&ots=36hvn1jMPa&sig=bIbtOoAO4pu4EAIYA1DFG4FFaq
Lina Scarpellini (X)
Canada
Local time: 02:58
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 12
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
des questions d'aborder le subject qui leur est sensible


Explanation:
des questions d'aborder l'obésité , un suject qui leur est sensible, vs ...

tanglsus
United States
Local time: 02:58
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Germaine: La syntaxe est fautive + on écrit "sujet".
13 hrs
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