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> I would love to know the psychology behind this phenomenon. Laziness. It's usually faster to ask someone a question than to look up the answer. I used to do
by olalonde 11y ago
> I would love to know the psychology behind this phenomenon.
Laziness. It's usually faster to ask someone a question than to look up the answer. I used to do this on IRC when learning a new programming language and it saved me a lot of time. If you want an even faster answer, you guess the wrong answer and wait for someone to correct you (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law).
- adekok 11y ago> Laziness. It's usually faster to ask someone a question than to look up the answer. :( My common answer is "If you're too lazy to read the documentation, I'm too lazy to cut & paste it into the email". Followed by them complaining about how I'm an asshole...
- pm 11y agoI did this with my brother. Would always ask me beginner programming questions instead of getting Google-fu (while running a business making FileMaker Pro integrations, ugh). Eventually I LMGTFY. He stopped asking.
- specialist 11y agoI bitly my LMGTFY. The passive/aggressive nerd Rick Rolling.
- pm 11y agoThat's gold. I'm going to use that one next time.
- Tiksi 11y agoIt might not apply to you, but in my experience, people that ask questions that would faster be answered by google never actually learn the topic they're asking about. I think 90% of my knowledge was stumbled upon while looking for the answer to something else. Sure, you might get the answer that X is the best way to do what you're trying to do, but if you read the docs, you might learn that what you're trying to do with X is already implemented and you can skip all that and just use Y. ( you not meaning you specifically here, just in general. )
- morgante 11y agoI don't think that fully explains it. On my school's forum, people routinely ask questions which a simple Google search would have answered. Yet typing out a question and posting it to a forum is a lot more work than searching on Google. I'd think the lazy response would be to stick to Google.