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You are wrong. People do not insist. People are free to do.
For example, if I know the answer to question #2 then I can give this answer and why shouldn't I?
And I feel free to remain silent where I don't know things, or to forget that there have been more questions, or I don't have the time, or whatever...
As others have suggested, in order to communicate effectively, you have to tailor your message to your audience. Dumb it down, break it down, shorten it, order questions from most to least important or most to least relevant to the recipient, or just badger them relentlessly with follow ups until you have the information you need and talk shit about them behind their back to any competent coworkers you have.
Regardless, they're not going to just magically change, so it's up to you to do something different if you want a different result than you're getting now.
Yes they are that lazy. The average office worker also has the attention span of a gnat. Write shorter emails with fewer questions if you can.
There's a whole academic study and degree for technical documentation. I wish more people knew how to write things.
The problem is partially you. You want to write an email that can be skimmed by someone who only reads 10% of it and they'll quickly be able to understand you and reply to you
The person on the other end is probably an overworked wage slave. You can't expect them to read every email cover to cover.
Yeah i get about 100 emails a day and tht ais already a confusing mess. I spend more time on a reply checking and looking up a name to add, because we have lots and lots of thrid party contractors. I domt have time to also mind read the sender
"Can you get todays reference number"
Do they really want to say "yes i can receive emails with reference numbers in them" or are they asking if i have already received it.
People can’t be bothered to read or do shit because their comprehension is trash. This happens constantly. I taught college courses for years and it was pulling fucking teeth to get people to answer essay prompts. For example:
In One Hundred Years of Solitude we see generational cycles of behavior blah blah blah, which characters fit this pattern, which characters do not, and why?
95% of answers: only characters that fit the pattern. They read the first few words and ignored everything else, and then have the audacity to complain that I said they only answered half the question.
In One Hundred Years of Solitude we see generational cycles of behavior blah blah blah, which characters fit this pattern, which characters do not, and why?
Proceeds to write an essay about Goku.
Yep that's fine push to production by Friday plz.
I have the same question, as I will receive replies through text messages that are like this:
Me: hey! Are we still meeting today? Where would be good for you? I'm open from 10am until 6pm so just let me know when works best.
Them: I can still meet today
I get responses like this all the time, and I don't feel like my initial text is too much.
Mainly I’m asking all of you why do people insist on only answering 1 question out of an e-mail where there are multiple?
They are either distracted or don't understand that there are multiple questions. In a few cases they don't want or know how to respond to multiple questions in an email format because they are afraid of changing your text formatting (yes, at least three people have told me that was why they didn't).
Do people just not read?
Quite a few have terrible reading comprehension.
Are people that lazy?
Some are.
What is going on?
It is a mix of a lot of things, all of which are different versions of poor communication skills.
Conciseness and directness help.
As an example, there was someone I worked with that tended to ask around a question.
"What do you know about x? What do you know about y? What do you know about z?"
Instead of "How do I get from x to z?"
I think they just want to understand the underlying process. And I can understand that. But I wasn't their mentor and it was at times frustrating.
Not suggesting OP is doing this. Just a general thought I had in regards to the question.
Put the questions in bullet points so they're easily visible. If it's part of a paragraph, it's getting lost.
If you've got questions, put them in bullet points.
I'm not scanning a wall of text to find everything.
Learn to ask better questions. Understand that you may only get one answer and ask the best most important question in a clear and concise way.
May I ask, regarding your typing are your questions buried in text?
If the questions are buried in text similar to your last paragraph, your not getting all those questions answered.