Sentences with phrase «questioner knew»

I had merely given a straightforward, quantitative answer to a straightforward, quantitative question not about any presentation by me but about a presentation given by Professor Lindzen, because the questioner knew that I had been at the meeting at which Professor Lindzen had spoken and that I might be able to answer.

Pfungst noted that as long as the questioner knew the answer, Hans would respond correctly.

But the answer / questioner knew that before posting both the question, and then the answer to his / her own question, and choosing his / her own answer as the «best.»

Not exact matches

(He also veered more heavily into conspiracy theory territory when an analyst's call was dropped when asking a question: «Instead of answering, there was a death ray type of sound toward the end of the question, and the questioner was no longer there.»)

A fabulously useful Quora thread responding to a questioner who wanted to know «What podcast has made you smarter?»

Questioners can benefit from knowing they need to walk a tightrope between over-analysis and gathering enough information to be personally convinced of the merits of a particular new habit.

«I know you've read a lot of books and you hire a lot of smart people and soak up what they know, but you have to acknowledge you seem to have found a way to pack more knowledge into your head than nearly anyone else alive,» writes the curious questioner.

The skit ended with the narrator shooting a questioner and saying «I always knew he was a trilateralist.»

If you have watched him make a big concession in a debate, or respond sympathetically to a hostile questioner, or provide a generous account of an opposing view in a book or essay, then you know that his kindliness is often the sign that serious intellectual vivisection is about to commence.

One questioner demanded to know what Prof. MacIntyre thought of the political situation.

The questioner continued, «But sir, everyone sits, walks, and eats,» and the Buddha told him, «When we sit, we know we are sitting.

Gerrish quotes the blind man from John 9: he does not know just who this Jesus is, he tells his suspicious questioners, but «one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.»

I don't know whether this, retort — fairly discourteous — settled anything for my questioner.

He surprised his questioner by replying «No» and added that there was always a risk in Catholic and Protestant theology of making Christ too abstract and an «abstraction» does not need a mother.

After a flattering statement that they knew Jesus taught God's way truly and without fear or favor, the questioners asked with an air of seeking guidance, «Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?»

Just by making sure my child's arm strength was good, (through normal play and climbing on the jungle gym etc.), I knew he could support his own weight on a regular toilet seat; no problem at all, never fell in or anything His daycare also has the same situation as the original questioner starting at around 2 yrs old.

Real danger comes from the quiet questioner who knows the subject and cares about it.

EDIT: The questioner wants to know why the same approach can't be applied to end the entire shutdown.

As a cautious representative of the people, I long ago learnt not to pretend to know things when I don't just because the questioner is a voter.

Only when the questioner did not know the answer or was hidden behind a screen did the horse fail.

Roughly 5 percent of the time, for example, student questioners slip up and scold Alex with a «No!»

I'm sure the questioner was expecting me to select from a list of celebrities, international spiritual leaders, or celebrated authors, but I'm more inspired by people I actually know (see the friend list above).

What we have all known for years is that kids always seem to know the latest — somehow, they absorb it through their skin — so if a desperate parent asks what's good to read, you might suggest a little «the birds and the bytes» session with their children, with the roles of wise guide and curious questioner reversed.

There are 10 audience questioners, a Did You Know?

The play has 11 questioners, a Did You Know?

The trick is to distinguish the hostile ones from the genuine but clumsy ones, because the clumsy question might really be the questioner's way of asking to get to know you better or could just be motivated by a mixture of anxiety and ignorance.

When the public is asked about the current level of school funding, it is incumbent on the questioner to find out if the responder knows anything about what the current level of funding is.

It's good to be able to say that you're one of the questioners of an American President — someone who asks relevant questions and who knows the players and who knows to get the answers.

I know most of you on this site, both the questioners & experts, are way above my knowledge on the subject, but I do appreciate your efforts to explain this to layperson like myself.

Either — you know what you're talking about, and so can answer your questioner; or — you can't answer, and make up all sorts of pathetic evasive excuses like the question lacks good faith, you don't like rabbit holes, asking the person to go and find the evidence you claim, etc etc.....

A better question, however, would be to ask exactly how the questioners came to know the detailed information about the skeptics» associations with anything related to the fossil fuel industry.

Cuffey, who was an active and probing questioner, asked every presenter formally whether we knew the temperature 1000 years ago within a half degree C. Every single one except Mann said no.

Specifically the questioner wanted to know whether there was a trend toward offering online products by subject or practice area.

The reason that questions like this tend to make me wince is that I know the questioner wants a simple, straightforward answer.

Scenario two: They think they know who the questioner is (they should by now) and don't want to risk being shredded... This would indicate that «they» don't want to engage in a public debate re the merits of the question and its answer (s).