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Discussion on: It is better to write something complicated that people find it hard to understand

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Brad

I'm not sure why the "catch" is if a CEO or program manager finds something easy to understand. I would hope neither of these people believe they fully understand a complex topic after learning just a little bit, as that makes them sound very gullible.

This entire conversation reminds of the Dunning-Kruger effect

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interesting... back in the high school period when I was in Asia learning Physics and Calculus, I think both the textbooks and teachers wanted to make them so difficult to understand so that there is a lot of respect... after learning them a lot more in a university, I found that they are actually so simple to understand, and can be explained so that even a 10 year old can understand them. I got straight A's in all engineering physics and calculus classes, and I was able to run into one math and one physics teacher that understood calculus and physics so well that they open my eyes for both these subjects... it is true that I have a lot of respect for these two teachers... but only because I had a really hard time in high school understanding these topics...

For the Dunning-Kruger effect, it remains me of, when I graduated and worked in the industry 2, 3 years long long time ago, sometimes I would see some 18 year old who think they know everything about the world... probably they get disillusioned when they went into sophomore and junior years in a university... and if they could, break out of them after they graduate... it is the more we learn, the more we found out it is a lot more that we don't understand (yet).