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Don’t answer questions beginning with “it depends”. It’s tedious and annoying. Everybody know “it” always “depends”. If you have something useful to say, frame it as an if/then qualified answer. Like, “I can speak to 2 cases. If we’re talking X then...and if we’re talking Y...”
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I prefer it, honestly, It signals that whatever follows is at a lower level of credibility/confidence. Then, if it sounds really confident anyway, I now know something else about the speaker.
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1/ Frequently when this comes up about a legal question, e.g. “is this person who occasionally works with my team an independent contractor or an employee” Rather than saying “it depends” I will try to say something like “well, so when it comes to this there is, there are
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We live in an era of fake news and competitive certainty where the most strongly expressed opinion wins. I’m happy to trade that for a little more weakly expressed uncertainty
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One approach ive found helpful is to lay out two opposing forces your audience must trade off to navigate a depends. Like, more persona definitions lets you target messages more finely (precision), but too many becomes a pain in the ass (complexity)
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