All right, everybody.

Hope you doing well, Stepham Mollineu, from the free domain.

So there was a question at freedomain.locals.com, which was,

What is the story with fog?

Of course, when I do call in shows, a lot of times I get a fog,

which is imprecise answers, evasive answers, did you get hit a lot? Not much. Well, how much I don't really know.

It wasn't too bad. You know, all of this stuff where any clarity and precision in the answer is studiously avoided, right?

So the question is sort of why does this happen?

Why do people do that?

So precise answers are a mark of confidence

and a mark of security.

Precise answers are a mark of confidence and of security.

So if you say to an engineer, you know, what is the, what tensile strength if you calculated

for sort of X, Y, and Z, then he will say, you know, you know, it's fairly, it's fairly good.

It's, you know, it's kind of accurate.

It seems reasonable and sensible. It's, you know, in the right area. It's, you know, it's kind of accurate. It seems reasonable and sensible. It's, you know,

in the right area. It's like, no, you get precise answers. When I had to submit my code to speed

testing, well, the speed testing had to have precise answers. And you did the testing a whole

bunch of times to see if you could figure out which way, like how accurate the results were. So you needed really sort of precise

answers. So precise answers are a mark of confidence and accountability, whereas fog or evasion is a mark

of low status and being punished both for lying and for telling the truth.

So it's really, really important. This is a big, big issue in life. You are punished both for lying

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