[aantix]

".. that people fear asking difficult/sensitive questions far more than being asked difficult/sensitive questions. That implies that in most social situations, people are afraid to talk about the juicy stuff because they falsely believe other people don’t want to talk about it. It’s yet another example of how nobody gives a shit nearly as much as we think they do. " [mark manson]

I Didn’t Want to Offend You: The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3437468

[ogennadi]

> Across our studies, individuals formed similarly favorable impressions of partners who asked non-sensitive (e.g., “Are you a morning person?”) and sensitive (e.g., “What are your views on abortion?”) questions, despite askers’ reticence to ask sensitive questions.