| Completely agree. I think there is a cultural component that has transferred throughout history whereby people need to signal their level of education to others. You've probably had it happen yourself without realizing. You hear someone explaining something in a simplistic way, and notice yourself wondering how deeply they understand the topic. Then when you are explaining the topic, you don't want people to question your own knowledge level like you did to the other person, so you use techniques to signal the depth of your knowledge. This might be fancy words, or skipping over simplistic things. And I think this just becomes second nature. You can see it with programming languages. If I told you to rate a Rust dev vs JS dev, you are thinking Rust is harder to learn so they must be smarter. It can also just be a challenge to imagine how you thought about a concept when you were initially learning it. English is pretty terrible for explaining a lot of math too. Math is better understood visually, but back in the day you couldn't exactly share an interactive diagram. |