| DESCRIPTION |
Repeating questions over and over generates as much or as little information
as the quantity and type of questions demand. Differentiation between
the 2 types of repeatable question gives serial questions, used indefinitely
and emptying questions used until the subject concerned is drained.
Serial
- Where the question and answers are related, you ask why C happened
and the answer is related to another event B and so the same question
can be reiterated, i.e.
- WHY did C happen, because B did
- WHY did B happen, because A did
- WHY did A happen, because (etc…..)
- Causation,
- 'WHY?’ Encompasses:
- ‘What is the reason for?’
- ‘What is the cause of?’
- ‘What is the consequence of?’
- (See also Causal Mapping)
- Membership
- ‘What are the parts of?’
- ‘What is this a part of?’
- ‘What belongs to it?’
- Parts could include sub-categories, or they could belong to a
wider system (see Hierarchy diagrams)
- Sequence,
- ‘What happened before and after C?’ exploration of
the timing behind the events
- Frame,
- 'What is the context of C?’
- ‘What is the context of that context?’
- This idea suggests a multi-layered hierarchy of one event dependant
on another
Emptying Questions
- Unlike the Serial questions above, these are not infinitely repeatable.
A group of questions are considered until they exhausted, i.e.
- Who else went to X? Sue
- And who else? Phil
- And who else? No-one (category exhausted)
The most frequently asked questions containing ‘else’ (‘Why
else?’..’What else?’..’Where else?’ etc.)
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