Question

Which of the following choices describes an appropriate answer to an interviewer’s question? Your answers must be as short as possible. Details are not needed. Your answers should be detailed and involved, with several examples Your answers should be complete but brief and to the point. Your answers should include extra information that will impress the interviewer

Answer 1

Your answers should be complete but brief and to the point.

Not providing enough details and providing too many unnecessary details are both bad.

Answer 2

Answer:

Your answers should be complete but brief and to the point.

Explanation:

Remember that in an interview, the interviewer wants to know information about a specific subject. Therefore the structure of the interview, the questions and the order they are asked, are meant to address that subject. The interviewee is considered an expert on the field, a witness that can help obtaining important information or even the subject of the interview itself. In social sciences great part of the investigations rely on interviews, here the scientific method doesn't allow any vagueness, everything has to be planned and serving the objectives.  

As the interview's objective is delimited by the interviewer, the interviewee needs to give complete answers as he is providing the information necessary to fulfil it. It also has to be brief and to the point as extra information may only confuse the author or the audience. The lenght of the interview is to suposed to be delimited too, so by giving a lot of data, it would make it more difficult to the interviewer to analyse it.