{"id":8856,"date":"2017-09-26T07:22:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8856"},"modified":"2017-09-20T08:17:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T12:17:29","slug":"ted-talk-how-to-ask-good-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2017\/09\/26\/ted-talk-how-to-ask-good-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"TED Talk: How To Ask Good Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Why ask questions? Sometimes being able to ask a good question is more important than finding a good answer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PkcHstP6Ht0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If the video above does not work, then try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PkcHstP6Ht0\">How To Ask Good Questions: David Stork at TEDxStanleyPark<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What makes a question the best?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clearly stated and unambiguous<\/li>\n<li>There must be a solution<\/li>\n<li>Solution method exists<\/li>\n<li>Improved solution methods will likely be useful<\/li>\n<li>Extremal<\/li>\n<li>Goes to hear of issue<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;right&#8221; level<\/li>\n<li>Leads to new questions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>General techniques<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Isolate components<\/li>\n<li>Consider all attributes and combinations of attributes<\/li>\n<li>Explore missing aspects<\/li>\n<li>Consider extereme cases<\/li>\n<li>How does X depend on Y?<\/li>\n<li>How to measure?<\/li>\n<li>Transisitions from state 1 to state 2<\/li>\n<li>Invert things<\/li>\n<li>Who, what, where, why, when?<\/li>\n<li>Analogies<\/li>\n<li>Different &#8220;languages&#8221; (math, code)<\/li>\n<li>Different disciplines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why ask questions? Sometimes being able to ask a good question is more important than finding a good answer. If the video above does not work, then try How To Ask Good Questions: David Stork at TEDxStanleyPark What makes a question the best? Clearly stated and unambiguous There must be a solution Solution method exists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3071],"tags":[3046,3339,767,1714],"class_list":["post-8856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logic","tag-education","tag-inention","tag-problem-solving","tag-public-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2iQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}