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Are you an Asker or a Guesser?
- timr 16y agobypassing the blog spam: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/may/08/change-life-asker-guesser http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/may/08/change-li...
- arantius 16y agoBlogspam. Original (2007): http://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-between-FU-and-Welcome#830421 http://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-betw...
- nitrogen 16y agoThe Guardian article adds significant original content, so I think it's worth reading as well as the original post.
- branden 16y agoDupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1346241 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1346241
- mijoro 16y agoSounds exactly like Jeff Bigler's concept of Tact Filters (1996): http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html >So, nerds need to understand that normal people have to apply tact to everything they say; they become really uncomfortable if they can't do this. Normal people need to understand that despite the fact that nerds are usually tactless, things they say are almost never meant personally and shouldn't be taken that way. Both types of people need to be extra patient when dealing with someone whose tact filter is backwards relative to their own.
- mistermann 16y agoHaving a Japanese wife, I can confirm the validity of this! :)
- DTrejo 16y agoAsker.
- soyelmango 16y agoMissed it and the original "Middle ground" post the first time round in 2007, so thanks for this.