[dragonwriter]

> Saying there is a quantitative strength to a relationship is, to a regular person, meaningless.

That the average person would not understand a particular accurate description of a subject does not, in and of itself, make a completely inaccurate alternative description less wrong or even a good simplification.

[ordinaryperson]

"less wrong" -- as if what's important is a gradient of "wrongness" and just helping the average person understand stuff without technical jargon.