My high school government teacher stressed the importance of avoiding ambiguous and loaded language when asking questions. To test this theory, each student developed a question and was asked to go to the lunch room's open study hall to ask a handful of students our question. Upon returning and discussing our individual questions nearly everyone had a mixed bag of responses, except for one student who had arrived late to class. His question contained loaded language and 100 percent of the people he polled had the same response. This experiment left an impression on me - to strive to keep ambiguity out of my interview questions.
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