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That was an incredibly verbose explanation for something very simple.
by IAmGraydon 5y ago
That was an incredibly verbose explanation for something very simple.
- jiggawatts 5y agoIt's a simple concept that about 95-99% of the general population does not understand at any level. This includes most politicians, civil planners, even scientists and medical staff. When the pandemic first started, people were flabberghasted about how FAST! the numbers were going up. Faster and faster, new records broken every day! Meanwhile, on a logarithmic plot, it was a dead straight line. It wasn't changing, not really. People don't "get" this. Even now, two years in, people are clinging to constant factors. I've had similar conversations with people who just don't understand Moore's law, Nielsen's Law, etc... I had to use pictures to explain to IT network professionals that upgrading a 15-year-old 2 Mbps site office link to 4 Mbps is hilariously under-specced when the mobile phone in my pocket can exceed 1 Gbps while I'm sitting at the bus stop. They just hadn't "grokked" that their mental models are off by orders of magnitude. They're used to x*2 instead of x*10^2.
- icedchai 5y agoAre you surprised? People don’t understand compounding investment returns either. 4 megabits! That would be considered fast 25 years ago.