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He said often tho

Intelligence, knowledge, perspective, mood—q.v. Thinking Fast and Slow. We can work to greatly mitigate biases and fallacies, but never eliminate them. Framing a message is accounting for all of them fit to the recipient.

I’ve always considered the burden to be on the sender. Sophistication is how well you can read the listener and adapt to help them understand and engage.

"But the aim is never to be convincing per se. As the reader gets smarter, convincing and true become identical, so if I can convince smart readers I must be near the truth." - Paul Graham, The Age of the Essay

And their current emotional state.

Definitely. It’s also dependent on the subject.

Style is more important than content and not dependent on the intellect of the recipient

Smart not the same thing as style though, how someone likes to intake new comms. A good frame captures all styles.

OR Smart people have a preference for no BS answers. No framing. Direct to the point.

Emotional intelligence or general intelligence?