they were doing analysis, which is easily heard as criticism by a listener.
Yeah I'm noticing more and more that analyzing things logically can very often be heard as criticism, including by me. And especially by people who don't have the extensive experience/education/culture of intellectual analytical discussion that i have. This is exactly why I am working on using empathy over analysis. I suspect that an hour of empathy followed by 15min of analytical thinking will get me A LOT farther with someone than an hour of analytical thinking with 15 min of empathy mixed in.
