The fun thing about this tweet is that there's no way you can tell which academic or indeed what academic field I'm subtweeting, because it's literally all of them.
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People who cannot and indeed make no attempt to adequately explain their subject matter to a general audience are shocked, SHOCKED I say, when said audience wilfully misunderstands their subject in ways that any first year class would have belittled them for not understanding.
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Do you actually mean "willfully"? Does the audience misunderstand on purpose?
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I don't, but the way the people I'm grousing about talk about it sure makes it seem like they think that.
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Btw, explaining to a general audience seems much more difficult than teaching first-year students. With students, you can go into details, and build up a bigger picture step by step. With general audience, you want to communicate the big picture quickly, without being misleading.
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I agree! But conveniently I don't think people are actually good at explaining to first-year students either, they just rely on people they don't know how to teach dropping out, so I'm able to make the same criticisms regardless.
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