Nooshin Warren and her colleagues had the excellent idea to give advice to academics on making their writing intelligible. You may (or may not) be surprised to learn that a lot of academic research isn’t understood but you shouldn’t be shocked. One problem is the curse of knowledge. Academics Are Specialists: Which Makes Communication Hard…
Category: Curse of Knowledge
Behavioral Economics Sports Bingo
A bit of an unusual post today. It being summer, therefore, here is a behavioral economics sports bingo card. Behavioural Economics Sports Bingo Game I’m looking for some help in assessing my new Behavioral Economics Sports Bingo game. The idea is that when you are watching sports you lookout for interesting comments from commentators, players,…
Some Excellent Advice
Dan Ariely clearly has a lot of fun writing his newspaper column. He has an edited volume of his advice, Irrationally Yours, which contains some excellent advice. Today I’ll share some of this. Next week I’ll explain why I don’t like the book’s title. Advice Columns Firstly, advice columns are challenging. As an academic, I…
Writing And The Curse of Knowledge
This post looks at the problem of writing and the curse of knowledge. How what we know can limit our effectiveness in communicating. Following Rules Can Be Helpful But Don’t Get Too Excited Sometimes it seems impossible to learn languages because there is often no logical reason for the rules that apply. What is worse,…
