Originally posted by: johnnyboy
The whole idea of saying "I don't recall" instead of no is based upon the premise that when confronted with evidence of something you don't recall, you can amend your answer and blame it on memory, not dishonesty. It gets used quite a bit by dishonest people to evade ever answering a question. The questioner typically learns how to deal with that by asking if they have ever been diagnosed with memory deficiencies, Alzheimer's or any other mental defect or disease that would account for their inability to recall important information. Then you ask if their inability to recall important information has ever resulted in being fired, disciplined or referred to a doctor. And once that's out of the way, you ask if they use their memory in their day to day employment, weekly, monthly. You ask all of the things that they use their memory for and how they are using it now. Then you ask if there is anything that exists in the world that they could use to refresh their memory right now so that when they say they don't recall now, they cannot recall later out of the clear blue. Then you got them.
Thanks for the well explained answer. I guess someone with 'one of the great memories of all time' would have a hard time telling people they forgot something.
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