Ask HN: Why do some people not communicate clearly?
YES. Absolutely!<p>Many people seem to totally lack the capability of understanding simple questions. I often have to ask yes&#x2F;no questions, and even then I have to say &quot;please answer yes or no&quot;. Then I have to go beating 1 bit information at the time... really frustrating, specially with people with master or even PhD degrees! Ok, where I&#x27;m now it seems a PhD can be bought around the corner for 2 cents.<p>In my experience this also happens when they try to explain something. Right now I&#x27;m relatively new in my position, and it was a real torture to understand the system, because nobody seems to be able to explain it in a linear way. They start &quot;there is this function, and this function, which depends on that, btw, there is also this here... did I mention this other module?!... ahh ok... no no.. sorry, I forgot this interface...&quot; It was really exasperating!<p>I think this may correlate strongly with the lack of ability for text comprehension, that is often reported in school tests.<p>EDIT: I see some answers referring to learning disorders, disabilities, anxiety, not knowing the issue at hand. I&#x27;m talking about people which do know the topic (explain the code they have written, for example); in a situation where I&#x27;m not the boss, and is no interview, just a coffee talk between equals; witout any diagnosed problem oder disability. As said, even with PhD titles, which imply they had to defend a Thesis in front of a panel with complex topics...