Is there a Japanese word for "XY problem"?


Is there a Japanese word for "XY problem"? (The phrase comes from
[here](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem)
and [here](http://xyproblem.info/))

> **XY problem** - _asking about your attempted solution rather than your
> actual problem._

Or should I write 「XYプロブレム」or should I just describe the "XY problem" word
literally ( _to get the close meaning of "XY problem" word_ )?

**Edit: I will explain more with "XY problem" itself**

XY problem is actually happens to _everyone_ , not just only programmer. I
think describing XY problem in paragraph will be tricky to understand, so I
will make the description in points first:

  1. A person has a problem (let's call this _X problem_ )

  2. The person has an idea to solve the problem (let's call this _Y solution_ ). Or you can call _Y solution_ is a _baseline_ to solve the problem

  3. The person doesn't know how to do with the Y solution either

  4. The person asks for help with Y

  5. Others are trying to help with Y, but the person (or the others) thinks Y is too complicated (so the Y is useless)

  6. At the end, this finally clear that the user really wants help with X, and the Y wasn't even a suitable solution for X.

**Conclusion** The XY problem could be described with this
([source](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/243965)):

>   1. _The person asking the question_ asks the wrong question (which is
> related to their attempted solution rather than the original problem), and
> then finds it difficult to clarify the question because they are stuck on
> their own solution. The proposed answers are unsatisfactory because they
> don't address how to implement the author's solution.
>   2. _People answering the question_ find it frustrating because the
> proposed solution doesn't make sense to them ...
>

This problem is very common in many Stack Exchange communities (I think
Japanese.SE is also one of them). It's like a question has many answers but
none of them is accepted by the asker.

This inability to come up with a better solution is called Einstellung Effect
([this article has clear explanation about this inability](http://io9.com/the-
einstellung-effect-proves-that-a-good-idea-can-be-a-1632864076), but you may
find the specific explanation in Wikipedia).

_Addition_

> The best approach to prevent XY problem is _be yourself creative_. Keep
> looking different solutions until you get the best one. In my point, when
> you have many solutions to a problem, you need to do with your solutions
> multitaskingly, so you're not falling into _Einstellung Effect or XY
> problem_.




I searched with Google, [Qiita](https://qiita.com/) (one of the largest
programmers' how-to sites in Japanese), and Japanese Stack Overflow, and to my
surprise, I failed to find one single Japanese article introducing this 'XY
problem'. So I can safely say XYプロブレム or XY問題 is not recognized by Japanese IT
workers at all. (But is English "XY problem" widely used outside of Stack
Exchange in the first place?)

Unless you want to be the first to introduce this word to Japanese people,
here are some existing Japanese phrases I could think of, which may carry the
similar meaning.

  * 回【まわ】りくどい質問 ( _lit._ roundabout question)
  * 要領【ようりょう】を得【え】ない質問 ( _lit._ pointless question)
  * ポイントが分からない質問

Or you can pick one of [these
expressions](http://thesaurus.weblio.jp/content/%E8%A6%81%E9%A0%98%E3%82%92%E5%BE%97%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84).




I searched with Google, [Qiita](https://qiita.com/) (one of the largest
programmers' how-to sites in Japanese), and Japanese Stack Overflow, and to my
surprise, I failed to find one single Japanese article introducing this 'XY
problem'. So I can safely say XYプロブレム or XY問題 is not recognized by Japanese IT
workers at all. (But is English "XY problem" widely used outside of Stack
Exchange in the first place?)

Unless you want to be the first to introduce this word to Japanese people,
here are some existing Japanese phrases I could think of, which may carry the
similar meaning.

  * 回【まわ】りくどい質問 ( _lit._ roundabout question)
  * 要領【ようりょう】を得【え】ない質問 ( _lit._ pointless question)
  * ポイントが分からない質問

Or you can pick one of [these
expressions](http://thesaurus.weblio.jp/content/%E8%A6%81%E9%A0%98%E3%82%92%E5%BE%97%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84).

