Indeed! I think I remember having read that a while ago. A different phrasing I like to use is “Do you have a favorite movie?”, because many people actually do and then are happy to share it, and if they don’t, they naturally fall back on something like “No, but I recently watched X and it was great” or so.
A tiny case of this I wrote about long ago: https://markxu.com/stop-asking-people-to-maximize
Indeed! I think I remember having read that a while ago. A different phrasing I like to use is “Do you have a favorite movie?”, because many people actually do and then are happy to share it, and if they don’t, they naturally fall back on something like “No, but I recently watched X and it was great” or so.