Questioning in that way is taught in the "Have you stopped beating your wife?"
school of interrogation.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
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From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I didn't really mean to get up the nose of Chris and I hope you noticed the
> :-)> Chris.
>
> One source of persistent irritation for me is a practice that our announcers
> (interviewers) on National Radio here have; and that is to ask questions in a
> negative form. I frequently take issue with them on it. And sometimes they
> take notice for a day or two.
>
> These announcers/interviewers tend to be somewhat aggressive in their
> questioning manner, and often seem to disagree with the person being
> interviewed. So a question might go like this.
>
> For example: " Do you not think that if you did this on Friday rather than
> Thursday there would be a better outcome?"
>
> It seems to me that if the person being questioned answers "Yes" or "No" it
> would mean about the same.
>
> For my dollar I'd rather have the form of the question be
> " Do you think that ... .... ?"
> Then a Yes or No answer would be quite unambiguous.
>
> Maybe I'm out of practice with current argument, since most questioned
> people answer No, in agreement. Or something.
>
> Brian
>
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