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Sunday, December 6, 2009

Subjective, can't really be answered questions

I touched on this a little bit in a recent post.

A subjective, can't really be answered question is when there is no one answer to a question and its all based on opinion.

Its like asking these kinds of questions:

  • Do respectable white guys date black/biracial girls in the midwest?
  • Is the midwest as racist if not more than the south?
  • Is such and such class hard?
Yes, subjective questions aren't just about race. But the recurring them in all 3 of these questions is that they are based on opinions.

These kinds of questions are nervewracking for that entire reason. You want advice but problem is, the answers really suck. You can get 12 people to say yes and 12 to say no. So what do you do?

You have to see for yourself and come to your own conclusions in the end.

The thing you must remember is that everyone is different. Therefore people will have different experiences.

You have to remember where the answers are coming from. When you ask a beautiful black woman and an ugly black woman the same question, you are likely going to get different answers, likewise if both personalities are strongly different you will get different answers.

Like with asking if a class is hard, you have to take into consideration how hard the subject is for you, and if the person you are asking likes the subject, is good at it, bad at it, or if they simply skipped out of boredom and that explains why they may not have done so good.

When we ask subjective questions, we sometimes make it harder for ourselves because we can't live by other peoples' experiences.

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