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Precision questioning

German translation: präzises/gezieltes Nachfragen

08:26 Sep 12, 2016
English to German translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy / Coaching
English term or phrase: Precision questioning
Precision questioning
Precision and probing questioning gets straight to the heart of things

People are vague in what they say, and there can be gaps in your understanding. Probing with precision questions can help recover information that’s missing.

Präzisionsfragen?
Vielen Dank!
martina1974
Austria
Local time: 12:00
German translation:präzises/gezieltes Nachfragen
Explanation:
Geht es hier nicht einfach darum?
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Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 12:00
Grading comment
vielen Dank!!
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1präzises/gezieltes Nachfragen
Steffen Walter
4präzise Befragung
archtrans


  

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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
precision questioning
präzises/gezieltes Nachfragen


Explanation:
Geht es hier nicht einfach darum?

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 12:00
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 111
Grading comment
vielen Dank!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  BrigitteHilgner: "gezieltes Nachfragen" würde ich als ehemalige Marktforscherin verwenden.
28 mins
  -> Ja, und das würde m. E. auch bereits die gesamte englische Formulierung "precision and probing questioning" abdecken, denn "probing" ist ja "Nachfragen".
agree  seehand
2 hrs
disagree  archtrans: This suggestion might well be more appropriate for marketing, but not necessarily pedagogy or coaching. In any case, my research didn't turn up "Nachfragen" in German sources from those fields.
21 hrs
  -> I don't understand your disagree - I consider 'precision and probing questioning' to be a single concept, and 'probing' is definitely 'Nachfragen' in market research, interviewing or similar (techniques used in these fields are often very similar).
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22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
precision questioning
präzise Befragung


Explanation:
Very close to your suggestion, Martina. "Befragung" goes to "questioning" rather than "questions".

This book puts Befragung with "präzise":
Die Schatztruhe | Richard Bandler, Paul Donner | Junfermann Verlag
www.junfermann.de/titel-1-1/die_schatztruhe-9704/
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Jan 1, 1995 - Besonderer Wert wird auf die präzise Befragung des Kunden und seiner Wünsche gelegt - was leider noch immer ... Coaching & Beratung.

An alternative might be "Präzisions-Befragung". Link below. I don't know if this is considered a separate answer or not - I don't wish to cause a problem. If pressed, I suppose I'd go with this if you are after the most literal translation.

Example sentence(s):
  • "Präzisions-Befragung, eine intellektuelle Toolkit für kritisches Denken und Problemlösen, entstand aus einer Zusammenarbeit von Dennis Matthies und Dr. Monica Worline, während beide gelehrt / studierte an der Stanford University."
  • "Precision Befragung versucht, seine Praktiker mit einer stark strukturierten, ein Frage / one-answer Diskussionsformat, ihnen zu helfen zu aktivieren: komplexe Probleme zu lösen führen tiefe Analyse machen schwierige Entscheidungen PQ konzentriert sic

    Reference: http://leistentag.com/article/przisions-befragung
archtrans
Canada
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Steffen Walter: Es ist nicht unbedingt hilfreich, wenn als Beispiele maschinell übersetzte Sätze genannt werden./Your two examples bear all the hallmarks of machine translation - Linguee includes all sorts of translations regardless of quality considerations.
12 mins
  -> I agree, the second sentence is messed up grammatically. Note, I did search carefully, and this specialized term gets very few hits. The example's from a related specialty. It discusses the meaning of term directly, so the content is of primary value.
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