Right Question or Right Answer

 

While I was discussing Business Ethics in my management class one of the bright student asked me a question

" What is more important asking the right question or giving the right answer?"

This was quite sometime back and at that time the only answer I could logically think was this is like asking which is more important the chicken or the egg. But instead of answering I just gave the issue back and asked the student to decide which is more important.

If one asks the wrong question then even if you give the wrong answer then still the answer is wrong as the question was wrong and if one gives the right answer to a wrong question then still it would be wrong because the question was wrong.

But if one asks the right question then the answer can be wrong or right hence there is still a 50% probability that one would get the right answer. So decide for yourself as to what type of question one wishes to ask.

But in the modern age of social media where news travels faster than light I would tend to somewhat agree with Vinod Sujanji that even if you know the correct answer to a right question then one should deliberately give a wrong answer because then there will be hundreds of people who will point out your mistake and correct you and reaffirm your faith in your correct answer. Wrong gets more answers than the correct answer. So the end remains the same that ask the right question even though both are two sides of the same coin and one can not logically answer as to what is more important the chicken or the egg.