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You and the commenter above are confusing expertise with ability to determine and speak someone’s language. It’s just a distinct skill. You may not understand
by wruza 2y ago
You and the commenter above are confusing expertise with ability to determine and speak someone’s language. It’s just a distinct skill.
You may not understand their level, and may be unable to negotiate it due to vocabular barrier (people invent non-standard vocab all the time). Your oversimplifications may bear unintended consequences, etc. You must take that into account and create a plan to make it clear.
And when you have that skill without any expertise, they call you politician. Only a politician may answer “easy” on a hard question and tell something unrelated for few paragraphs cause he doesn’t know anything on the original one.
- johnny22 2y ago> You may not understand their level, and may be unable to negotiate it due to vocabular barrier (people invent non-standard vocab all the time). Your oversimplifications may bear unintended consequences, etc. You must take that into account and create a plan to make it clear. This isn't actually bad in all cases though. It's like learning about science in primary school. You're gonna get some things simplified in a way that might be considered incorrect by those who are experts, but without some base layer of understanding to bootstrap from, you won't be able to become an expert.