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Probing Questions?

Probing questions are open-ended questions used to encourage critical thinking and explore personal thoughts and feelings on a topic. Examples include questions about why someone thinks something, what impact will result, or what would need to change for an accomplishment. Leading questions push respondents to answer in a specific way by containing information the questioner wants confirmed. Loaded questions seem straightforward but contain assumptions about the respondent.

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Probing Questions?

Probing questions are open-ended questions used to encourage critical thinking and explore personal thoughts and feelings on a topic. Examples include questions about why someone thinks something, what impact will result, or what would need to change for an accomplishment. Leading questions push respondents to answer in a specific way by containing information the questioner wants confirmed. Loaded questions seem straightforward but contain assumptions about the respondent.

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Probing questions?

Probing questions are designed to encourage deep thought about a


specific topic. They are typically open-ended questions, meaning the
answers are primarily subjective. Probing questions are intended to
promote critical thinking as well as to get the person asked to explore
their personal thoughts and feelings about a particular subject.

Here are some examples of probing questions:

1. Why do you think that is?


2. What sort of impact do you think this will have?
3. What would need to change in order for you to accomplish this?
4. Do you feel that that is right?
5. When have you done something like this before?

Leading Questions?
 Leading question is a type of question that pushes respondents to
answer in a specific manner, based on the way they are framed.
More than often, these questions already contain information that
survey creator wants to confirm rather than try to get a true and an
unbiased answer to that question. Leading questions could also
involve an appeal at the end that’s designed to coerce the
respondent into agreeing with the speaker.

For example, ‘this project is going well, isn’t it?’ encourages the
respondent to say ‘yes’.

Loaded questions
 Loaded questions are seemingly straightforward, closed questions
— with a twist: they contain an assumption about the respondent.
 They’re famously used by lawyers and journalists to trick their
interviewee into admitting a fundamental truth they would
otherwise be unwilling to disclose.

 For example, the question “have you stopped mistreating your


pet?” is a loaded question, because it presupposes that you have
been mistreating your pet.

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