How to ask good questions
Do People Ask Good Questions?
People ask questions in order to efficiently learn about the world. But do people ask good questions? In this work, we designed an intuitive, game-based task that allowed people to ask natural language questions to resolve their uncertainty. Question quality was measured through Bayesian ideal observer models that considered large spaces of possible game states. During free-form question generation, participants asked a creative variety of useful and goal-directed questions, yet they rarely asked the best questions as identified by the Bayesian ideal observers (Experiment 1). In subsequent experiments, participants strongly preferred the best questions when evaluating questions that they did not generate themselves (Experiments 2 and 3). On one hand, our results show that people can accurately evaluate question quality, even when the set of questions is diverse and an ideal observer analysis has large computational requirements. On the other hand, people have a limited ability to synthesize maximally informative questions from scratch, suggesting a bottleneck in the question asking process.
'Ask for what you want' is a key skill for the 21st century
Takes practice, and a bit of audacity.
How to Talk to Customers: 5 Lessons to Improve Communications
Whether you call them product owner, evangelist, or community manager, every company should have someone talking to their customers regularly. They should be the goto for any "What-Ifs” and “I wonders” from the product team.
How to give a good research talk
Giving a good research talk is not easy. We try to identify some things which we have found helpful, in the hope that they may be useful to you.
A complete guide to Bluesky 🦋
I've decided to write down some of the tips & tricks that I often give to friends when I send them an invite code, or the advice and answers that I sometimes give to people that I find in some feed asking about things. This of course got much longer than I planned 😅
A complete guide to Bluesky 🦋
I've decided to write down some of the tips & tricks that I often give to friends when I send them an invite code, or the advice and answers that I sometimes give to people that I find in some feed asking about things. This of course got much longer than I planned 😅
Address research questions fast • Gems
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How to Give a Great Research Talk
Someone’s underperforming. Now what?
14 questions to ask an employee who’s struggling during your next one-on-one meeting so you can figure out how to best help. Someone’s slipping. You see it. You feel it. You’re not on the same page…
📖 Frequently Asked Questions | Stoat Developers
This page includes several frequently asked questions and explanations.
The Interview Question Bank for Engineering Managers
Organised by theme, and every question comes with a short thinking prompt
