Commentary: The Questions We Shouldn’t Ask

noninvasive tests of fibrosis: to get the right answers, we need to ask the right questions

Sudden infant death syndrome: what questions should we ask?

A limited historical perspective can affect the questions we pose about the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) issue. Evidence is presented from the literature that the SIDS rate in Western countries was low prior to World War II and peaked in the 1980s. An analogy is drawn with the trends in the prevalence of some infectious diseases, and questions are posed from the perspective of a bacteria...

How and Where Do We Ask Sensitive Questions: Self-reporting of STI-associated Symptoms Among the Iranian General Population

Background Reliable population-based data on sexually transmitted infections (STI) are limited in Iran and selfreporting remains the main source of indirect estimation of STI-associated symptoms in the country. However, where and how the questions are asked could influence the rate of self-reporting. In the present study, we aimed to assess what questionnaire delivery method (ie, face-to-face i...

Questions Children Ask

Mrs. Chaloner approves the modern manner of answering difficult questions simply and honestly, but warns against perplexing children by giving them more facts than they want, or can use at a particular stage of understanding. Throughout the book she gives examples of the differences in interest and meaning which the same question may have to the two, three, four, and five year old child. The na...

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, gamebased task that allowed people to ask natural language questions to resolve their uncertainty. Question quality was measured through Bayesian idealobserver models that considered large spaces of possible game states. During free-form question generati...