Are you an Asker or a Guesser?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/may/08/change-life-asker-guesser

by J3L2404 • 16 years ago

48 8 16 years ago

timr• 16 years ago

bypassing the blog spam: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/may/08/change-li...

arantius• 16 years ago

Blogspam. Original (2007): http://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-betw...

nitrogen• 16 years ago

The Guardian article adds significant original content, so I think it's worth reading as well as the original post.

branden• 16 years ago

Dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1346241

mistermann• 16 years ago

Having a Japanese wife, I can confirm the validity of this! :)

DTrejo• 16 years ago

Asker.

mijoro• 16 years ago

Sounds exactly like Jeff Bigler's concept of Tact Filters (1996): http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html

>So, nerds need to understand that normal people have to apply tact to everything they say; they become really uncomfortable if they can't do this. Normal people need to understand that despite the fact that nerds are usually tactless, things they say are almost never meant personally and shouldn't be taken that way. Both types of people need to be extra patient when dealing with someone whose tact filter is backwards relative to their own.

soyelmango• 16 years ago

Missed it and the original "Middle ground" post the first time round in 2007, so thanks for this.