Are there books about asking questions? Like systematic approaches on how to ask good questions in whatever context? I would assume journalism, certain fields of studies must have something like this out there?
@tkoola From a creative thinking perspective, I have seen A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger recommended. I haven’t read it yet, but it is on my list.
@tkoola I’d recommend a look at the field of narrative inquiry and the work of scholars like Clandinin and Connelly. In a nutshell, it recommends open questions that avoid yes/no dichotomies or leading words like ‘why’—instead ‘how’ and ‘what’, which lead to more flowing and genuine recounts of qualitative human experience. I’ve used it as the underlying methodology for my Really Specific Stories research podcast and earlier study.
Simply, the key is: don’t ask questions that are leading or prompt a certain answer, as journalists often do in search of a certain story or angle; and don’t search for information with a need for generalisability or representativeness, which is often a myth that fuels a bias for broad quantitative data across populations.
@martinfeld forgot to answer to this, this was a very good advice, I spent an hour going through that rabbit hole 😅. I also realized I know a sociologist who does exactly this kind of stuff for living. I need to go bother them..