Essay On Neutral Question

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The obvious interpretation of ‘a neutral question’ is one where the questioner has no vested interest in the answer. I.e., the questioner will accept the answer which emerges, eschew confirmation bias and refrain from seeking to weight the outcome of an inquiry in favor of preconceived ideas, prejudices or predictions. So, a neutral question is a detached, impersonal, open question, and yes, some people are capable of asking them.
Or least, they would be if there was any such thing as a neutral question. The problem is judging whether a question is neutral or not.
Depending on the area of knowledge we are talking about issues that may arise within these areas, in my opinion, they will not have a neutral character.
Neutral questions should
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With this simple, but powerful, change of words, the results were strikingly different. Eighty percent of people called him to say they were improving. A big difference compared to the previous question.
This example shows that the way in which the interviewer asks a question and the attitude that goes with it, can make the difference in receiving a favorable response or no or a defensive reaction. In the former case the nurse changed the question for patients to respond with another positive response.
Another area of expertise is the natural science like physics, chemistry or biology, if we know these fields can be defined as a set of descriptive statements normally and objectively verified by a team of people. It comes in first as a free and independent ground in the neutral questions that may arise, without intent to persuade or condition the response of the other.
This assumes that judgments of opinion and preferences, moral, political, etc., ethical values of the people who move within this field of knowledge, have no power of influence since it is universally accepted scientific laws, and they have not changed over time, e.g. the Pythagorean Theorem or the Theory of Newtonian

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