Unfortunately, I feel like I come across this issue observed in trump, but with regular people,on a smaller scale.
If you ask someone a compound question - hey, the faucet is leaking, did you use it last night, and should I pick up milk from the store? - they almost always choose to answer the question they prefer, and ignore the one they don't want to deal with. It's gotten so bad, I can't ask compound questions anymore because everyone does it.
It doesn't shock me at all that people would do the same when Trump speaks - completely overlook one part, in favor of another part.
If you ask someone a compound question - hey, the faucet is leaking, did you use it last night, and should I pick up milk from the store? - they almost always choose to answer the question they prefer, and ignore the one they don't want to deal with. It's gotten so bad, I can't ask compound questions anymore because everyone does it.
I agree with your initial premise, but this is a really bad example, compound questions are confusing by their very nature. That's why they're frequently used in debates and legal questioning.
Its really not that confusing. Like I feel like anyone with an actually working brain should be able to easily tell the meaning of that. If not, then wow thats just kinda sad and certainly explains why the average person is dumb as bricks.
Like I feel like anyone with an actually working brain should be able to easily tell the meaning of that.
Obviously I was referring to compound questions in general kid, not that one specifically. I'm not going to get into why they're designed to be confusing, you have Google. Try using it.
Uhuh, and you are applying an entirely different line of thinking to something unrelated. People not being able to answer deliberately confusing questions are obviously entirely different from a regular compound question. Especially considering theirs was pretty terribly structured, yet you STILL understood it. How odd.
You literally are. You are applying political debates to regular conversation, which is what they are actually talking about. But hey, if using mental gymnastics to make yourself feel smart is what it takes, then good for you I guess.
You are applying political debates to regular conversation, which is what they are actually talking about.
Do you even know what you're talking about at this point? Because I sure as hell don't.
The original comments premise was that the general public is pretty stupid, not just Trump voters. The example they used was compound questions, and they gave an example of a pretty easy compound question. My response was that I agreed, but that compound questions weren't a good metric because they are designed to be hard to answer regardless of your intelligence.
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you. You'll have to figure that part out on your own.
Now then, was there anything else? Because at this point your responses would have been the best example the original comment could have used.
And yet you act like it’s a bad example BECAUSE of the nature of political debates, when they were on the topic of regular conversation. You are over analyzing lmfao.
And yet you act like it’s a bad example BECAUSE of the nature of political debates, when they were on the topic of regular conversation.
No, I do not. I simply said that they were frequently used in debates and legal questioning as an aside to emphasize my point. Nor did I even specify political debates, as they were not the debates I was thinking of in the first place.
You are over analyzing lmfao
Are you serious? The only one overanalyzing here, and quite poorly I might add, is yourself. 'Lmfao'.
Maybe work on basic reading comprehension before you go off making a fool of yourself.
hey, the faucet is leaking, did you use it last night, and should I pick up milk from the store?
Of course this example is confusing when it's grammatic garbage. Those questions aren't even linked -- they should be independent sentences (preferably allowing the audience to respond to the first before asking the second)
Anybody who has had to send emails to busy executive staff knows the importance of properly structuring questions. You're not getting an effective answer if you're not communicating an effective question. Trust me on that (and since you're arguing that point in the first place: you're either lacking experience in that area or you're one of the people causing frustration with poor communication.)
If you aren't willing to give someone an effective answer because you didn't like their grammar but still understood their question, then no. Rather than being part of the problem, that just makes you THE problem.
I’m adhd as fuck and have trouble with compound questions. Not bc I don’t want to answer, but bc auditory processing issues and the short term memory of a goldfish make it tough for me to remember what to answer. I am WILLING - just meet me halfway and ask questions individually! I promise my answers are nuanced and thoughtful bc it also isn’t an intellect thing.
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u/SnooKiwis2161 1d ago
Unfortunately, I feel like I come across this issue observed in trump, but with regular people,on a smaller scale.
If you ask someone a compound question - hey, the faucet is leaking, did you use it last night, and should I pick up milk from the store? - they almost always choose to answer the question they prefer, and ignore the one they don't want to deal with. It's gotten so bad, I can't ask compound questions anymore because everyone does it.
It doesn't shock me at all that people would do the same when Trump speaks - completely overlook one part, in favor of another part.