What is the purpose of your follow-up questions?
Are you truly interested in what the respondent is telling you or are you merely confirming your hypothesis about the meaning of their answer?
Learn about this and other traps that intervene with asking the most useful follow-up questions.
What are the origins of RIVA’s saying “probe till you puke?”
And more about what’s so bad about asking someone ‘why’ they said or did something?