EVERYBODY IS IGNORANT ABOUT SOMETHING
We’re trained from a young age to give some kind of answer to questions and hide our ignorance This can be a huge problem when you’re asking questions to get the truth, or opinions, whether from yourself or from other people or Google.
If you ask poor questions, you will get poor answers.
One of the problems of bad questions is assuming the other person (or Google) understands what you’re thinking
Words like “could, might, should” are very distinctive and result in different answers. Implications. People read implications.
But also this: EVERYBODY IS IGNORANT ABOUT SOMETHING
(it’s why Stephen Hawking’s opinions about Religion and God are laughable; it’s not his field and he doesn’t know theology. Being smart in one area doesn’t make you smart in other areas]
I found a book from 1951 called The Art of Asking Questions
Try asking these questions to someone you know. For a 60 year old book that has been read by millions of people and influenced politics, the way people give interviews, has found its way into Humanities, and Feminist Theory, led into Embodied Cognition which influenced the WHOLE of neuroscience and brain scans today, psychology, marketing, – , these questions are just as tricky to answer for us as they were for his readers 60 years ago.
Of course, they didn’t have Google then. 😛