The phrase "asking how useful" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when inquiring about the effectiveness or practicality of something.
Example: "I am asking how useful this new software will be for our project."
Alternatives: "inquiring about the usefulness" or "questioning the utility".
Too much of a good thing ReprintsAs they rise in an organisation, people often become comfortable practising the skills that have got them thus far, and fail to ask how useful these are when working at a higher level.
In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked "How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation?" and concluded it's not nearly as valuable as its proponents argue.
Our article published in the June 2018 edition of Nature Biotechnology asks, "How useful is the IDP?" There is little data on how the IDP actually affects trainees in terms of identifying their goals and career objectives.
Noticing that public discourse so often takes the form of heated arguments -- of having a fight -- made me ask how useful it is in our personal lives to settle differences by arguing.
When she asked how useful my Sociology degree had been, I answered that it had taught me how to felt tip my idea of a potato on to a sheet of transparent plastic, then compare it with the real world by placing it over an existing potato, and she said, 'that's Plato'.
Four feedback messages were shown to the participants and they were asked how useful they found feedback and to identity any usability issues.
"The framework of our study was to ask how useful genome sequencing would be for targeting breast cancer prevention, assuming that genome sequencing were affordable and could be performed on every girl at birth," said Dr. Weiva Sieh, M.D. Ph.D., a Stanford epidemiology professor, in a phone interview with HuffPost.
Our survey asked how useful researchers at the respondent's institution would find a research ethics consultation service, and how useful the respondent personally would find such a service.
Respondents assigned to the control condition were sent a written description of the different components of the CYD and asked how useful they thought each of the components might be.
