"Something instead of Nothing"

This article really got me thinking about how truthful people are when they are being interviewed. Especially in the interviews I am going to conduct, for my final project. Are the people that I interview going to give me honest answers, or will they be somewhat scripted, to fit the identity that I already know them as. Also, It made me want to make my questions to be pretty open ended, so that there is a lot of room to talk, while I will certainly be able to bring the interviewee back to my main points during the interview. One thing that specifically stood out to me in this article is that being interviewed is much harder than being the interviewer. I will be asking my friends very deep personal questions about identity, and I want them to give me their honest opinions. I do not want my interview’s to feel like interrogations, where I need directly specific answers. I want my interviews to feel more like an informational conversation. I don’t want it to feel like we are sitting in a sauna baking under the pressure of the questions I am asking. I have taken interviewing class, so I feel like I have some good experience as to being an interviewer. Another thing in the article that really grabbed my attention is that interviewer’s look for people to make a mistake and when they do they use it against the person who said it. So they are able to get hidden truths out of people and hold it against them in a way. When I conduct my interview’s I am going to make sure, if my friends – accidentally say something, and they don’t want me to use it then I won’t because I am not a “bad guy” trying to find hidden truths about people and use them against people. Overall this article really got me thinking about my final project.