If someone asks a question requiring a yes or no answer (eg: do you have a dog?) do you just reply yes or no or do you amplify your answer?
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ANSWERS: 8
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The Answerbag suggestions for how to give useful answers requests that we amplify the answers to make them more useful.
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I give a yes or no answer as often as possible.
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I usually amplify. Unless they're doing some kinda survey or something, I personally don't see the interest of answering questions by yes or no. But if that's all they really want, I just tend to not answer them.
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Try to amplify but sometimes I give one word answers. Depends on question mainly but sometimes my mood.
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Answer this question with a simple yes or no. "Have you stopped beating your wife?" I hope this exercise has helped answer your question. :-)
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I would tell them something about my dog, after I answer the question. But some questions only require a yes or no while others seem to need a little more. IMO
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I usually go into way too much detail, but if I answer on here, I usually delete most of my answer and try and give just the basic information or else I go off on a tangent of all kinds of info (useless or not)
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I usually amplify the answer. ;-)
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