Heh. Well, asking them “Of the choices the world faces, which ones seem most important to HS students?” would probably have sounded condescending.
Not to mention eliminating most of whatever potential benefit there was to asking the group. The extra layer of indirection ensures that the particularly insightful will be having insights into the thinking of their less astute peers rather than the topic itself.
Heh. Well, asking them “Of the choices the world faces, which ones seem most important to HS students?” would probably have sounded condescending.
Not to mention eliminating most of whatever potential benefit there was to asking the group. The extra layer of indirection ensures that the particularly insightful will be having insights into the thinking of their less astute peers rather than the topic itself.
Do you think this is his real motivation? I can’t imagine what he expects to learn.
Well, knowing what adolescents think is important is useful if you intend to market important-seeming things to adolescents.