I am not an epidemiologist. However, I am in a profession where nobody understands what I do or how I do it. Basically, my work consists of doing these things nobody understands and then explaining them to people in a way they can understand. Literally, 35 years of this.
If her work is so complex that she can't possibly explain it to a…
I am not an epidemiologist. However, I am in a profession where nobody understands what I do or how I do it. Basically, my work consists of doing these things nobody understands and then explaining them to people in a way they can understand. Literally, 35 years of this.
If her work is so complex that she can't possibly explain it to an educated lay person, she doesn't really understand her own work very well. Additionally, she may lack the basic educational skills needed to communicate (vocabulary, sentence construction, verbal comprehension). It's sad, but that's what happens when people aren't competent in their profession.
The way I heard this phrased by a famous professor was: unless you can explain your subject to a truck driver you don't actually understand it. A lot of people get pseudo-educations where they don't actually think critically about their material to learn it through making sense of it; rather than just memorize it and then learn ways to spam the information or algorithims they learned so they don't actually have to analyze them and understand or defend them. It's very sad education has been debased like this by all the money they was put into it through unlimited federal student loans that had no accountability for delivering an education.
So that's why you're able to have such a great screen name! My work is not like yours but I often have to explain technical to non-technical and vice-versa. My colleagues say I do that pretty well.
I'm just saying that I understand about your ability and totally respect it.
I am not an epidemiologist. However, I am in a profession where nobody understands what I do or how I do it. Basically, my work consists of doing these things nobody understands and then explaining them to people in a way they can understand. Literally, 35 years of this.
If her work is so complex that she can't possibly explain it to an educated lay person, she doesn't really understand her own work very well. Additionally, she may lack the basic educational skills needed to communicate (vocabulary, sentence construction, verbal comprehension). It's sad, but that's what happens when people aren't competent in their profession.
The way I heard this phrased by a famous professor was: unless you can explain your subject to a truck driver you don't actually understand it. A lot of people get pseudo-educations where they don't actually think critically about their material to learn it through making sense of it; rather than just memorize it and then learn ways to spam the information or algorithims they learned so they don't actually have to analyze them and understand or defend them. It's very sad education has been debased like this by all the money they was put into it through unlimited federal student loans that had no accountability for delivering an education.
So that's why you're able to have such a great screen name! My work is not like yours but I often have to explain technical to non-technical and vice-versa. My colleagues say I do that pretty well.
I'm just saying that I understand about your ability and totally respect it.