Interesting class of miscommunication that I’m starting to notice:
A: I’m considering a job in industries 1 and 2
B: Oh I work in 2, [jumps into explanation of things that will be relevant if A goes into industry 2].
A: Oh maybe you didn’t hear me, I’m also interested in industry 1.
B: I… did hear you?
More generally, B gave the only relevant information they could from their domain knowledge, but A mistook that for anchoring on only one of the options. It took until I was on both sides of this interaction for me to be like “huh, maybe I should debug this.” I suspect this is one of those issues where just being aware of it makes you less likely to fall into it.
Interesting class of miscommunication that I’m starting to notice:
A: I’m considering a job in industries 1 and 2
B: Oh I work in 2, [jumps into explanation of things that will be relevant if A goes into industry 2].
A: Oh maybe you didn’t hear me, I’m also interested in industry 1.
B: I… did hear you?
More generally, B gave the only relevant information they could from their domain knowledge, but A mistook that for anchoring on only one of the options. It took until I was on both sides of this interaction for me to be like “huh, maybe I should debug this.” I suspect this is one of those issues where just being aware of it makes you less likely to fall into it.