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Re-structure the question and switch gender out for cake flavors. "What flavor of cake do you prefer? Chocolate, vanilla, or sheetcake?" the feedback coming
by fenwick67 9y ago
Re-structure the question and switch gender out for cake flavors.
"What flavor of cake do you prefer? Chocolate, vanilla, or sheetcake?"
the feedback coming back as...
"'Sheetcake' is not a flavor. Sheetcake may be vanilla, chocolate, red velvet, lemon-poppyseed... If you want to know if a survey respondent likes sheetcake, you need to explicitly ask that question."
... it does seem kinda grating but not overtly so. It could have been nicer but also could have been more rude.
- ivraatiems 9y agoI completely agree. I know and have worked with many people who communicate that way. I'd probably prefer it if they didn't, but I also don't generally have a problem when they do. I would feel that the explanation was unnecessarily pedantic and perhaps the slightest bit disrespectful in its assumption that I didn't know what I was talking about, but I would assume that was unintentional. It's interesting that the reaction from this data scientist individual came back so extremely negative.
- sgt 9y agoThe more I think of it, this whole thing is like something out of Portlandia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlandia_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlandia_(TV_series)