Do you ever feel that you are too precise?

I admit to being too precise in clitoral matters.

I don’t feel like I have that problem. (With being precise in speech that is). I tend to rant but in a vauge way that leaves room up for interpretaion. This is not because I am lazy, its because I am kind and try to get everyone to think. (kidding)

I like preciseness (sp?) in others because it spares me the trouble of having to look too closely at my ideas and figure their implications. This question was very precise, and but allowed me to think. It guided my thoughts nicely to the type of answer that the question asked for.

Offline, yes. To the point where I can see the annoyance written on my family’s face, even the little one…the 5 yr old. I am trying to change, though. Online, not always. I do see some answers that way. On some topics, it’s okay, but sometimes, it just kills the thread.

yes, especially if someone ask about a subject I used to teach.

Only about 42.876% of the time. ;-P

Yes.

And sometimes I’ll then move on to answer the next two or three possible questions that relate to it (completely unsolicited).

Drives my wife batty. She’s sure to stab me someday.

Never, not ever, not for a single second. If anything I tend to be too vague.

Sometimes I feel the need to make my answer more precise, even painfully so, to avoid the subsequent answers which object to something I did not precisely clarify.

It is not possible to be too precise. There are always holes in your points, or areas for further investigation. The precision in answers here probably averages around less that 1% of the possible precision.

See? I didn’t define my terms (what is precision?). I didn’t cite a source (not that it was possible). I didn’t provide examples. I didn’t talk about the universe of all precision I was referring to. Basically, this is a worthless answer, when you come down to it, although I think it’s less worthless than some other answers.

Maybe you’ll think this is a joke, but I am quite serious.

Precision is all relative, anyway. Can two people be precise about the redness of an apple? Arguably no, because color doesn’t really exist, it’s our brain’s interpretation of light signals, and no two brains are exactly alike.

Being precise is only affirmation to one’s self of something. I am guilty of covering every array of something I’m talking about sometimes. I don’t like this quality as we learn from the open gaps we leave when we aren’t entirely precise. When we give others a chance to fill the areas we haven’t, that’s when we learn..you know what I mean? So. I do it, and it takes some stepping back to stop myself sometimes but it’s always rewarding when I don’t do it, more so than when I do.

Or maybe I’m just crazy and took this question entirely in my funky-mind way.

Yes, I have that problem simply because I live for perfection. Being precise can be good or bad depending on which situation it’s used in. I try not to be precise in serious conflicts because then it makes me look like I’m focusing too much on something that, overall, doesn’t matter much to others.