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Why? etc. - repeatable questions

Repeating questions over and over generates as much or as little information as the quantity and type of questions demand. Differentiation between the 2 types of repeatable question gives serial questions, used indefinitely and emptying questions used until the subject concerned is drained.

Serial

• Where the question and answers are related, you ask why C happened and the answer is related to another event B and so the same question can be reiterated, i.e.
  • WHY did C happen, because B did
  • WHY did B happen, because A did
  • WHY did A happen, because (etc…..)
• Causation,
  • 'WHY?’ Encompasses:
  • ‘What is the reason for?’
  • ‘What is the cause of?’
  • ‘What is the consequence of?’
  • (See also Causal Mapping)
• Membership
  • ‘What are the parts of?’
  • ‘What is this a part of?’
  • ‘What belongs to it?’
  • Parts could include sub-categories, or they could belong to a wider system (see Hierarchy diagrams)
• Sequence,
  • ‘What happened before and after C?’ exploration of the timing behind the events
• Frame,
  • 'What is the context of C?’
  • ‘What is the context of that context?’
  • This idea suggests a multi-layered hierarchy of one event dependant on another

Emptying Questions

• Unlike the Serial questions above, these are not infinitely repeatable. A group of questions are considered until they exhausted, i.e.
  • Who else went to X? Sue
  • And who else? Phil
  • And who else? No-one (category exhausted)

The most frequently asked questions containing ‘else’ (‘Why else?’..’What else?’..’Where else?’ etc.)