XY problem

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A communication problem where a person seeking help (for example, from a computing helpdesk) provides misleadingly incomplete information about the source of the problem and thus receives inaccurate or unhelpful suggestions about how to fix it.

词形变化

XY problems plural
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