I have tried asking questions that are very clearly not ammunition for later gotchas ("Can you tell me about how many digits you think the number has?") but peo

I have tried asking questions that are very clearly not ammunition for later gotchas ("Can you tell me about how many digits you think the number has?") but people associate numbers with precision and remain deeply hesitant even when I explain that their wild educated guess is probably better than my wild uneducated guess.