Is This Anything? 2

1) One big problem for getting good feedback is that nobody wants to give negative feedback. Which makes sense, it's a classic collective action problem, the costs of giving negative feedback accrue only to the feedback-giver (ask me how I know!) while the benefits of any improvements accrue to everyone.

Something I'd like to work on more is using “two negative options questions” to solicit better feedback: e.g. when hosting people at your house, instead of saying of “is anyone cold?" (to which people will often politely say “no” regardless of truth), ask “is this room too hot or too cold?”

Or e.g., rather than asking someone “does my outfit look ok?” ask "which of these pants look worse on me?”

That said, two-negative-options removes some useful information, e.g. it wouldn't differentiate between “A is great and B is terrible” and the case where “A and B are roughly equally good”.

Is there a better type of question to ask that would do a better job of soliciting accurate feedback?

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2) Many South Asian countries use the units "lakh" (100 thousand) and "crore" (10 million), often in places where Americans would use thousand or million or billion. For example, your salary might be expressed in lakh, and a startup's funding might be expressed in crore.

I feel like this "must" have consequences for how people think about numbers and more broadly some kind of impact on various parts of society. (Or alternatively: if it doesn't have any impacts whatsoever, I think that would evidence against linguistic relativity, because this seems like a much cleaner and more pervasive thing to me than e.g. whether your language's word for "bridge" is feminine or masculine).

That said, I don't know what those consequences would be. And I can't find any studies about it, or really anyone asking this question.