Sometimes I ask questions that look rhetorical but aren’t, and when I notice myself doing this I append something like “not a rhetorical question, I actually want to know” at the end.
How do you recognize when your question will be interpreted as rhetorical? ibid.
Experience? My main heuristic is something like “if I imagine someone saying this, do they have a smug look on their face?”
Sometimes I ask questions that look rhetorical but aren’t, and when I notice myself doing this I append something like “not a rhetorical question, I actually want to know” at the end.
How do you recognize when your question will be interpreted as rhetorical? ibid.
Experience? My main heuristic is something like “if I imagine someone saying this, do they have a smug look on their face?”