{"id":3143,"date":"2020-06-15T01:16:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T06:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2020-05-23T07:18:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T12:18:09","slug":"hiding-information-and-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/06\/hiding-information-and-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding Information and Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8221; and &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to say&#8221; are close cousins. They also carry much information if we are willing to listen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;I can&#8217;t say.&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to say anything now as I may be divulging too much or incorrect information.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would you please tell me something? Wait, the other person is telling me something. It may not be what I want to hear, but the other person is telling me something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ignorance is information\u2014valuable information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The other person doesn&#8217;t have information.<\/li><li>The other person cannot find the words.<\/li><li>The other person cannot massage the data into information.<\/li><li>The other person is afraid.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first shows that the other person may lack the resources to gather information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second shows that the other person may lack the resources to communicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The third shows that the other person may lack the resources to analyze data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last item on the list is frightening to me. I am working with a frightened person. What monster lurking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The entire list provides me with further questions like, &#8220;May I provide resources?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hmmm, now we are working again instead of staring across a table at one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips &#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8221; and &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to say&#8221; are close cousins. They also carry much information if we are willing to listen. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221; &#8220;I can&#8217;t say.&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to say anything now as I may be divulging too much or incorrect information.&#8221; Would you please tell me something? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,247,1,306,67],"tags":[311,248,307,187],"class_list":["post-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","category-questions","category-uncategorized","category-visibility","category-work","tag-information","tag-questions","tag-visibility","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}