T Chu 朱 on Nostr: npub1xsymv…xcevg npub1tmzh2…5vsgn npub1zdp33…2vqv8 This goes beyond having good ...
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This goes beyond having good editors though.
It's a reminder that the painfully obvious to us, isn't.
We (the royal we here) often make statements with the expectation that people know it's implications and this example shows how wrong we often are. We expect too much logic and math from people. An example - friend told me his pharmacist wife (no dummy) suggested putting the hot soup container in the "cooler" to help it cool faster. The name "cooler" was enough to throw the logic of heat transfer out the window.
Scientists lost to scammers in the area of climate change when scientists got on TV and got hammered by "how certain are you?" And went down the scientific uncertainty talk. The scammer brigade knew exactly how to exploit that for the crowd who thinks a third pounder is bigger than a quarter pounder.
Scientists/doctors doing public communication needs to have a better understanding of exactly how little the general public can wrap their minds around math. This is such a brilliant real world example. It needs to be in a scicom textbook.
This goes beyond having good editors though.
It's a reminder that the painfully obvious to us, isn't.
We (the royal we here) often make statements with the expectation that people know it's implications and this example shows how wrong we often are. We expect too much logic and math from people. An example - friend told me his pharmacist wife (no dummy) suggested putting the hot soup container in the "cooler" to help it cool faster. The name "cooler" was enough to throw the logic of heat transfer out the window.
Scientists lost to scammers in the area of climate change when scientists got on TV and got hammered by "how certain are you?" And went down the scientific uncertainty talk. The scammer brigade knew exactly how to exploit that for the crowd who thinks a third pounder is bigger than a quarter pounder.
Scientists/doctors doing public communication needs to have a better understanding of exactly how little the general public can wrap their minds around math. This is such a brilliant real world example. It needs to be in a scicom textbook.