Is there such a thing as question bias?

Yesterday’s post How are your answers doing? stimulated several good conversations.

A couple were with other people – on LinkedIn and Zoom – and one was with me…

I realised that I was trying to find a question to use as a navigation tool.

If I knew what I need to ask, my meta question would define my path in this uncertain space. Phew. Job done.

And then, horrors, I also realised that I was in danger of searching for questions to fit my answers.

Not obviously – I would have spotted that – but the way I was framing questions was shaped by the ideas I was already playing with.

Is there such a thing as question bias?