Why didn't they ask Evans?

Infants ask for help when they know they don't know.

Uncertainty monitoring is a core property of metacognition, allowing individuals to adapt their decision-making strategies depending on the state of their knowledge. Although it has been argued that other animals share these metacognitive abilities, only humans seem to possess the ability to explicitly communicate their own uncertainty to others. It remains unknown whether this capacity is pres...

Exploring Barriers In Expertise Seeking: Why Don'T They Ask An Expert?

This paper reports findings from a research project that explores reasons why some employees prefer to seek expertise to resolve work-related problems from direct colleagues rather than designated internal experts. Several studies suggest that while an expert generally provides a higher quality solution in a shorter time, workers tend to ask friendly or proximate colleagues to help with knowled...

How spinal manipulative therapy works: why ask why?

Why Do You Ask So Many Questions ?

[N]o amount of telling somebody in mere words that one is or is not angry is the same as what one might tell them by gesture or tone of voice .... Anyhow, it is all nonsense. I mean, the notion that language is made of words is all nonsense -and when I said that gestures could not be translated into "mere words/' I was talking nonsense, because there is no such thlng as "mere words" ... Gregory...

Ask "WHY NOT?" Not "WHAT IF?"

The editor-in-chief asks: with strong evidence in favour of collaborative practice, why has it not yet been adopted across the system? What is holding it back?