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Juan Carlos Muñoz

1 year ago

Juan Carlos Muñoz
1 year ago

There's an #xkcd comic for everything, and I always use this one when discussing #scicomm with my colleagues.

🔗 https://xkcd.com/2501/

A drawing of two stick figures talking to each other. One says "Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars."

The other says "And quartz, of course." to which the first one replies "Of course."

The corollary text at the bottom says "Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field."

Average Familiarity

^xkcd

#scicomm #xkcd

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