bbleeker comments on Open Thread, Jul. 27 - Aug 02, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bbleeker 28 July 2015 03:16:22PM 3 points [-]

But he did answer your question. You wrote:

Do you have suggestions for either: a. dealing with it b. getting people to answer the right question

And Artaxerxes wrote:

One thing you could do as an example is some variation of "oh sorry, I must have phrased the question poorly, I meant (the question again, perhaps phrased differently or with more detail or with example answers or whatever)".

Isn't that an answer to your point b?