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>You are right about questions being perceived as not having done enough
>homework. Conversely, too many important questions remain unasked.
I agree with the general opinion that the key thing is asking the
/right/ questions. At least once I've saved the company time (which, as
we all know, is money) and potentially embarrassment by pursuing certain
questions.
For example, "Why do the input fields for Thing A here not correspond to
the input fields for Thing A there?" is usually a sensible question to
ask. Especially when the answer is "Oops."
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