> At the same time, adult questions get longer and longer. Most of this length isn’t important for the question, it is meant to prevent the audience from thinki

> At the same time, adult questions get longer and longer. Most of this length isn’t important for the question, it is meant to prevent the audience from thinking the questioner is stupid. On the contrary, I do it to prevent people from wasting the first 5 minutes of their explanation with basics that I already know, or simplistic models that don't fully explain my observations. My dad once told me "Education is the process of lying less and less". Kids are OK with a kid-level model because it explains everything they see. I need to preempt answers with 3 or 4 observations I have which aren't explained by the kid-level model.