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Social Sciences - Psychology / adult education | | French term or phrase: retentissantes | Apprentissage des adultes en milieu de travail
Un questionnaire, c.a.d. une liste d'énoncés que les gens peuvent cocher s'ils s'appliquent à eux.
Voici l'énoncé qui commence à m'énerver:
Je trouve souvent que les actions fondées sur les sentiments sont aussi retentissantes que celles fondées sur une réflexion et une analyse prudentes.
I know, actions speak louder than words... but how to formulate the sentence? |
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Either in view of being heard or acknowledged, or as to the end results of those actions. |
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26 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 effectual
Explanation:
"I often find that actions I take based on my feelings are just as effectual as those I take after reflection and careful analysis."
Would I be right in thinking that this is a psychometric testing questionnaire? If so, then what the questioner is really trying to find out is whether this questionee (is that a real word?) tends to make decisions based on his/her feelings or on intellectual reasoning/judgment. In that case, the actual word you use to translate 'retentissantes' is not as vitally important as it might otherwise be.
My reasoning here is that retentissant = resounding = resonant = has an effect that spreads outwards = effectual (as opposed to effective).
I may be totally off-track here, in which case, many apologies for rambling on at length.
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