TheOtherDave comments on Mental Metadata - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Alicorn 30 March 2011 03:07AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 30 March 2011 04:22:29PM 1 point [-]

Personal experience. I tend to like hearing less detail than people want to give, and it's difficult to get them to summarize.

People don't generally ask me to change my detail level-- I don't know whether I'm in a sweet spot, the tolerable range, or (as I strongly suspect) most people are much more inhibited about asking for a different detail level than I am.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 30 March 2011 04:41:34PM 0 points [-]

It may also be a specific, rather than a general inhibition: if someone responded to me in a way that made me believe they wanted less detail than I was providing, I would not be inclined to ask them for more details about their answers even if I wanted more information than that in general.