I learned this lesson when I was a *high school intern* at NASA Ames and a writer misreported one of the projects I was working on that summer.
Blew me away that after just a few months of up-close work I had more context than an adult whose job it was to report on it
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1099847713598795776 …
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The opposite also seems to be true. If we don't understand a subject we assume people who write about it have more knowledge than what they possess in reality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect …
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I think this is what
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Was this a science writer or a generic topics writer? Big distinction there
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It's not just that. It's that gaining context *itself* takes N-squared time, between all of the different things adjacent to a topic. Then, to communicate that to M different audiences, is another multiplier. There is a "network Dunning-Kruger" that is lower than individual ones.
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I don't think the causality goes in that direction though
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AI-driven summarization can't come soon enough!
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I don't necessarily disagree with your critique here, but 2 thoughts to add: 1. On the flip side, maybe scientists & engineers should get better at explaining their work to laypeople. NASA Intern You is one thing, but many "grown" tech folks are too resistant to work on this...
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2. The real prime directive of journalism is to hold powerful people/institutions accountable. Technical details are one thing, but we shouldn't lose sight of this high-level value, which is sorely need in the tech industry.
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