cousin_it comments on Media bias - Less Wrong

36 Post author: PhilGoetz 05 July 2009 04:54PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 05 July 2009 09:51:30PM *  8 points [-]

A possible addition to your list: maybe scientists don't know their texts are impenetrable. I know I often skip important but "obvious" steps without noticing when explaining stuff. Lectures get repeated and can plausibly evolve to be understandable, while texts stay set in stone.

Comment author: prase 06 July 2009 10:32:07PM 0 points [-]

There are many texts origining from lectures and they are generally no more penetrable than texts written from scratch.

I am a bit skeptical about evolution of understandability. It seems to me that lecturers able to take a feedback and improve the structure of their explanations are rather rare.