How to Communicate Complex Ideas to Any Audience
Explain complex ideas using analogies, breaking information into steps, avoiding jargon, and making abstract concepts concrete for any audience level.
The exact change
described by Camille Swink and colleagues in a 1990 study published in Journal of Experimental Psychology
described by Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Martin Weber in a 1989 study published in the Journal of Political Economy
Suggested change
described by Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Martin Weber in a 1989 study published in the Journal of Political Economy
Why this is better
3 issues fixed: No study by 'Camille Swink' on the curse of knowledge exists in the literature. The curse of knowledge as an economic/cognitive bias was described by Camerer, Loewenstein, and Weber in a 1989 paper in the Journal of Political Economy (not Journal of Experimental Psychology, and not 1990). | 'Theory-based categorization' as a concept describing experts vs. novices organizing category knowledge around causal theories rather than perceptual similarity was established by Murphy & Medin (1985) in Psychological Review, not by Paul Bloom in a 2000 Psychological Review paper. This is a real researcher (Paul Bloom is a real Yale psychologist) misattributed to an unverified citation detail. | The actual Deslauriers, Schelew & Wieman (2011) Science study reported exam scores of 74% vs 41% for the active-learning versus lecture groups, described in the literature as 'more than twice' the score, not a '2.5-fold improvement in learning gains.'
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