Many times in the game you get prompted with events/choices that have significant repercussions. These are great, and key to the game! However sometimes I don't know my current situation enough to make a proper decision, and you cannot click away from the Event UI to check.
Example:
Choice 1: Will give +3 relations with Civ for 25 turns
Choice 2: Will give -3 relations with Civ for 25 turns
Choice 3: etc
However when the screen pops up, sometimes I have no idea what my CURRENT relations are with that civ, so I have no idea if I can reasonably suffer the penalty vs reward.
Same goes for choices about ideology....sometimes it just says "Cooperation +1" as an outcome but you dont know your current cooperation level (or what item it could unlock)
There's a bunch of others too