Sylvia, a novice interviewer, asks Adam, the respondent, the following question: " Didn ' t...

The Fraud Examiners Manual defines double-negative questions as those containing two forms of negation in a single clause. They are confusing and “often suggest an answer opposite to the correct one.” The example given is almost identical to the question here:

“Didn’t you suspect that something wasn’t right?”.

Thus, Sylvia’s question is a double-negative question, which should be avoided.