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Why can't people just say "sorry, I don't know the answer"?

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Edison:
If a question develops that I don't know the answer to in the interview, I have no problem saying - I don't know, I don't know the answer.
But if I'm not explicitly asked, I have no idea why I should intervene in the topic and pat myself on the back with the fact that I don't know the answer, I simply don't interfere in the debate, whether verbal or written, when I have nothing to enrich it. :)

Fixpoint:

--- Quote from: m98 on September 19, 2020, 09:14:39 pm ---People who recently acquired knowledge, in my experience, are more likely to be able to explain it to someone unfamiliar in a way he can grasp quickly. Also, you improve your own understanding of a subject if you explain it to others.

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Wait, you are talking about "people who recently acquired knowledge". Note that I was talking about "beginners". You may have acquired knowledge recently, but that does not mean that you are a beginner! You could be an expert who learned something new.

If I really are a beginner, teaching doesn't work because I don't understand the details, don't know the background, cannot explain the WHY (only the WHAT), will probably explain it the wrong way without noticing it, I don't know and don't see the relationships to other things which may be very important, etc etc etc. Bad idea.

Kjelt:
I am guilty  :palm:
When colleagues ask me a question I do not know the correct answer to I do say something.  :-[
I always answer with : "42".

KL27x:
Sometimes both parties ARE right. Defining the scope of a question can be quite difficult, bordering on impossible without pages of details. Until that is done, you can't say one view is right vs the other. 

eti:

--- Quote from: bobcat2000 on September 19, 2020, 05:09:41 pm ---The guy in my psychology class also said that if there were enough people in one side, the people in the other side would be forced to agree mentally with the other group.

What that guy in my class is saying is that if there are a bigger group to say this is a "6" for example then the group who say this is a "9", the group who say this is a "9" will be forced mentally to agree that this is indeed a "6".

The group who will say "I don't know" maybe too small in size.  So, they will not say anything.

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So to summarise the obvious, quiet but confident humility is in short supply.

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