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Have you ever had a teacher who was very smart but terrible at teaching? An expert who used so much jargon you could not follow their explanation? This is called the “curse of knowledge”, a term coined in 1989 by economists Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Martin Weber.

It’s a cognitive bias that occurs when someone incorrectly assumes that others have enough background to understand. For example, your smart professor might no longer remember the challenges a young student faces when learning a new subject. And the expert might overlook the need to simplify concepts, assuming everyone knows what they know. //

You can avoid the negative effects of the curse of knowledge by constantly questioning your assumptions as to how much exactly your audience knows.
Curse of Knowledge - Mitigating Strategies

• Get to know your audience. Try to know how much they know. If you’re talking to a friend or colleague, assess the extent of their knowledge before starting your explanation. If you’re talking to potential customers, ask a few questions before starting your sales pitch.
• Simplify your language. Don’t hide behind jargon and complex terminology. Use simple language and clear examples to make your point easier to understand even with limited knowledge.
• Use storytelling. Stories can make information more relatable and memorable. Relate complex concepts to familiar experiences. Analogies and metaphors can also make abstract ideas more concrete and understandable.
• Show, don’t tell. A picture can be worth a thousand words. Instead of a lengthy explanation, see if you can create a visual, a graph, or an illustration that conveys the same content in a more accessible way.
• Engage in active teaching. Encourage questions and discussions. Pause at every step to ensure the person is following. By engaging your audience, you can better gauge their level of understanding and adjust your explanations accordingly.

What’s great about simplifying your explanations is that it reinforces your own knowledge. If you can’t explain something without using complicated jargon, you’re probably not as familiar with it as you think. Making the effort to explain concepts in simpler terms ensures you truly understand them.

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Biden says his goal is to "cut American cancer deaths in half by 2020"

4:58 PM · Aug 13, 2024 //

Kamala Harris was on board with Biden's policies; she knew about all this. She can't disassociate herself from all these failures and issues. But even he is more open with the press than she is.

How can Harris please both her base and independents when they have such conflicting desires on these and so many other issues? The short answer is she cannot pull this off. At some point in the near future, Kamala will finally have to come clean with voters and make it clear where she stands on these pressing issues.

When this day finally comes, and Kamala outlines where she currently stands on everything from the economy to the border, a reckoning will occur. At this point, I believe Kamala and her campaign team are desperately trying to prolong the honeymoon. However, all honeymoons must end at some point. //

writeofcenter
5 minutes ago
Elections are popularity contests these days. Particularly, who looks young and vibrant versus who doesn’t. Biden is out because he looked old and decrepit and finally, his senility became publicly displayed.

Harris appears youthful by comparison and that’s what the D’s are selling. It doesn’t matter how vacuous or radically progressive she is. It’s all imagery. It’s all Hollywood. Or You Tube for that matter. //

anon-jbc5
an hour ago
You are being optimistic. She will never have to define where she stands on any issue. This is a "vibes" version of a basement campaign.

Big government. Big spending. Big tax increases. //

IRS data showed that Minnesota loses “about ten households earning more than $200,000 for every six that it gains, which is the fifth worst ratio among the states.”

The Obama administration was terrible to Netanyahu. Somehow, Joe Biden has managed to be even worse.

From Tablet Magazine:

“He is the first president to form an interagency team dedicated to imposing sanctions on an ally, namely, Israel.”

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/biden-harris-anti-israel-sanctions-machine

Harris said she was going to be focused on the economy when she gets around to putting out policy positions. But she's occupying office now; what has she done in that capacity? Biden-Harris has only made everything worse. So why would anyone believe anything about what she says she wants to do in the future? //

If she can't even deal with the regular press pool, how is she supposed to deal with hostile world leaders? This is nuts, she isn't even answering the press as much as Biden is.

Normally you wouldn’t expect the New York Times to pursue a story that contains negative information about top-echelon Democrats, but lo and behold, on Tuesday evening the outlet dropped an article revealing that First Son Hunter Biden requested help from the U.S. Embassy in Rome to secure a lucrative deal for the Ukrainian gas giant, Burisma, whose board he famously sat on. Here's the kicker: this was in 2016 while Joe Biden was vice president. //

The timing of this document release certainly raises eyebrows—coming less than a month after Joe dropped out of the presidential race—but the Times and the State Department assure us it’s all just a coincidence. Sure. How convenient: //

Donner’s Party
an hour ago
Selective Leaking, so now everyone can say “ITS OLD NEWS”, when for EIGHT YEARS, they said it wasn’t even true.

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Understandable that Kamala's campaign would find it confusing to listen to a presidential candidate speak off the teleprompter for more than 0 seconds.

Kamala HQ @KamalaHQ
Our statement on... whatever that was
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11:31 PM · Aug 12, 2024 //

Benito
11 hours ago
I like it because Trump making comments like this about kamala is going to get in her head making her scared to do interviews

CnellyB Benito
11 hours ago edited
well, there is plenty of space .....

GSD Life CnellyB
10 hours ago
Lol, you owe me a new monitor. Not sure I'm going to get all this coffee, that I just laughed out of my mouth, off my screen. //

Weminuche45
10 hours ago
Actually, most "self-obsessed rich guys" are Democrats today because being a Democrat is much more lucrative, is less risky and creates much less friction. For anyone who is self-obsessed and chasing money and power, the choice is simple.

Being a Conservative, or even a classical liberal today, requires holding principles more important than their own self-interest. It requires personal responsibility, courage and sacrifice.

Any coward can be a woke regressive. That only requires the willingness to point the finger of blame anywhere but your own actions.

But one man's accomplishment is another corporation's impending financial loss.

The corporate media was not happy about the conversation that happened on X, and I can't say I blame them. The conversation should give them a sense of terror, and not because it allowed Donald Trump to speak uncensored and without any boundaries. Yes, seeing Trump talk about plans for the future, the corruption in Washington, and the lies of the left was not something they wanted anyone to hear, but it goes deeper than that.

For as long as they can remember, the press has been the gatekeepers of information and narratives. The internet introduced some very real complications to that, but thanks to many of the overlords in Silicon Valley being just as radically leftist as they were, controlling information wasn't that hard to do. Censoring, blacklisting, and silencing wasn't just easy, they considered it a noble pursuit. //

And then Elon Musk bought Twitter after a lengthy struggle against its board members, and discovered just how deep the rabbit hole of government collusion and cooperation went. This information was released via the "Twitter Files."
https://redstate.com/tags/twitter-files //

All of this led to the moment where Donald Trump, the once banned former president, spoke to the world's richest man in a live conversation anyone could listen to about everything from the border to electric cars, the economy, and plans to shrink the government. It was unfiltered, uncensored, and terrifying for the information gatekeepers of the modern era.

Trump didn't have to fight them here. He didn't even have to go around them. He completely ignored them. //

justpaul
8 hours ago
The Leftists thrive on group think and the hive mind. They can't accept the idea that we could all simply talk to one another directly, instead of through them.

That's what Trump did last night, and they are scared to death that people listened. //

anon-fl4c
8 hours ago
The MSM has done irreparable damage to this country with the lies, censorship and suppression of all things true. Even when us “plebs” caught on, they continued the gaslighting in lock step and went too far.
Last night they hit the iceberg. I’m hoping there’s not enough lifeboats. //

cyberjockey justpaul
5 hours ago
They're scared to death that not only did people listen, but they might have started questioning all the narratives that the propaganda media has been pushing for decades. And questioning all the narratives/smears regarding Trump.

And that is what scares them most of all. The idea of people critically thinking and questioning instead of just accepting the narrative/agenda.

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NEWS: The UAW today filed federal labor charges against Trump and Elon Musk due to something Trump said during last night's 𝕏 Spaces.

UAW: "At one point, Trump and Musk were talking about workers who go on strike for better wages. Trump said if workers "go on strike, and you…

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The last two UAW presidents went to prison for bribery & corruption and, based on recent news, it looks like this guy will join them!
11:11 AM · Aug 13, 2024

There is, we may very well remember, an old saying about people who live in glass houses.

The Kamala Harris campaign has been editing press headlines and putting the fake versions in ads as a way to spread disinformation. That's according to a new report that found multiple instances of Google ads being manipulated without the consent of the various news organizations linked to the false headlines.

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🚨🚨 The Harris campaign has been editing news headlines and descriptions within Google search ads that make it appear as if the Guardian, Reuters, CBS News and other major publishers are on her side, Axios has found.
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Harris-sponsored Google ads suggest publishers are on her side
3:35 PM · Aug 13, 2024 //

There is no doubt in my mind that this would be a major scandal if the Trump campaign were involved. Could you imagine the screams of "disinformation" and threatened lawsuits from press organizations? It'd be non-stop. Because it's Harris, though, it's no big deal. //

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Yesterday, Sara Fischer of Axios threw a fit on CNN over “disinformation” and Elon Musk allowing Trump to “say whatever he wants.”

Today, she’s hand-waving away the Kamala Harris campaign editing press headlines in ads to spread disinformation.

Incredible.
5:32 PM · Aug 13, 2024

Science is all too often wielded as a weapon. Whenever anyone claims, "science says," they are betraying a very real lack of understanding as to how the scientific method works; science is not a body of people or an authority — it is a tool, a method of looking at data, drawing conclusions from that data, forming hypotheses, testing those hypotheses, and seeing if others can reproduce the results. And when new data becomes available, all of the conclusions previously drawn must be evaluated, dispassionately, against that new data. Science should not — must not — be cited in support of an agenda, as that drives people claiming to be doing science to act in contradiction to the scientific method — working backward from a conclusion, discarding inconvenient data, and so on.

All of these things are happening right now in the arena of climatology.

On his Substack, science journalist Roger Pielke Jr. has described five such cases, and they merit consideration, as they show how science is being abused in pursuit of this particular agenda. Let's look at a couple.
... //

Too many people, especially people with an agenda, are not interested in the scientific method. They aren't interested in the truth. They aren't interested in decoupling science from politics. That's how we have come to this pass, where a loud, vocal, and at some times criminal element is demanding economic ruin, the end of our modern, technological society, and the return of mankind to the 19th century, all in the name of human-caused climate change that the data just doesn't support. The problem here lies not with the people who are doing science; it lies with the Al Gores, the John Kerrys, the Greta Thunbergs, the people who wave the term "science" like a battle ensign, and the vast majority of whom, like Al Gore, like John Kerry, have the carbon footprint of a medium-sized Third World nation.

This isn't science. This is the opposite of science. And these people are willing to destroy our modern lifestyle because of this — because of the bugaboo of anthropogenic climate change. //

anon-201n
8 minutes ago
More recently, scientific theories have become bandwagons, on which research grant grifters jump to get money. Right now, a lot of scientific research in the U.S. is being dominated by the paradigm of human-caused climate change. Into this maelstrom, faulty data and outright falsehoods are being swept around, and overwhelming responsible scientific research which attempts to find truths about earth's ecosystems. Without a framework of adherence to truth, scientific research is crowded out by political pressure exerted by ignorant advocates. //

C. S. P. Schofield
an hour ago
Sadly, science is often like this; called in to support a pre decided position. Or, an old theory hanging on in the face of new data until the men whose reputation were built on the old theory have retired; continental drift is supposed to have been adopted only father a mechanism for it was established, but the truth seems to be that it was accepted by the young blood, and became official after the old guard were no longer blocking it.

My late father was a Professor of the History of Science and Technology, so I gat a lot of this over the dinner table.

Yes, in theory, when the data contradicts theory, the theory gets junked. Seldom happens that directly, though.

Climate Change activism is a particularly squalid case. It doesn’t help their case that their proposed ‘solutions’ are mostly fairy tales. Wind, solar, and battery powered cars will not help, and may cut ally harm the environment more than what they are supposed to replace. I would, in particular, like to see somebody, ANYBODY, taking a hard look at what having wind and solar farms taking energy out of the environment does in terms of side effects. The enviroweenies act like that energy is free, and There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. //

COUltraMAGA
an hour ago
There are so many “climate science” articles that are almost immediately outdated by real-world observations it’s almost funny.

Case in point: I just ran across a recent study that showed that the Great Barrier Reef had rebounded from its 2009 lows to an unprecedented level (30% higher than standard levels of coral colonies) in just 15 years. Remember how all the coral was “dying” and being “bleached” because of CO2 and ozone blah blah blah? Not so much.

Turns out those lows in 2009 (and they were pretty low then) were due to a cyclone that passed almost directly over the entire GBR a year before. Causing widespread damage to the corals (which happens from time to time).

Rest assured, the GBR is not going anywhere, and in fact seems to be sticking a big middle finger to the climatistas by rebounding to far greater numbers than were thought possible. //

C. S. P. Schofield COUltraMAGA
an hour ago
Some decades back I made the observation that at least half the ‘environmental emergencies’ talked about would vanish if we executed the board of directors of The Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and the like. I think a fair proportion of the others - runaway wildfires spring to mind - could be solved by taking large tracts of land away from various governments and making them privately owned. In the developing world, too much damage is done because the companies working the land have leases from the government instead of owning, and know they have to make all the money they are going to get before tge lease runs out.

But the most impressive part is the number of people who ultimately tuned in to listen to the conversation. X posted that from the time they went live to the time they ended, 73 million people viewed the space, while four million people posted about it, amounting to a total of just over one billion views.

Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Combined views of the conversation with @realDonaldTrump and subsequent discussion by other accounts now ~1 billion

X @X
Between 7:47 PM and 10:47 PM ET, President Donald Trump's Space post received 73 million views. During the same period, there were 4 million posts about Elon Musk and President Trump's conversation on 𝕏, generating a total of 998 million views.
2:43 AM · Aug 13, 2024 //

Here in the States, the mainstream press did not like the fact that Trump was effectively getting around them, and a Washington Post reporter asked Karine Jean-Pierre if there was a way to stop the conversation from happening at all. Mainstream media figures on CNN threw a very professional temper tantrum about their loss of narrative control as well.

It's very clear that this wasn't supposed to happen like this. Trump was supposed to be confined to friendly interviews from center-right networks and Fox News, which the left has programmed the public to be wary of or outright hate. The conversation on X was more proof that the corporate media is losing its grip on the narrative. //

Beagles Lives Matter
12 hours ago
These numbers are impressive but what I want to know is the origination of the DDOS attack which sought to interfere with Musk’s live Trump interview on X!

Laocoön of Troy Beagles Lives Matter
12 hours ago
I'm a cynical bastage so I suspect it was done by Iran or the People's Republic with the CIA/FBI/NSA, Secret Service and Homeland Security with the assist. And yes...I really do think it was coordinated with the Democrat Party. At least partially... //

Fishin'withFredo Laocoön of Troy
11 hours ago
Because especially in the last 10 years or so the insane stuff turned out to actually BE shadowy conspiracy.

Laocoön of Troy Lugger66
11 hours ago
I'm not a conspiracy dude so it really pains me to come to this conclusion. I mean...why blame shadowy conspiracy when simple buffoonery will suffice? But we've repeatedly seen insane stuff I would have never thought possible even a few years ago.

DenverBill Laocoön of Troy
11 hours ago
You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge.

• G. Carlin

A senior Department of Defense official linked to an organization that lobbies for the mullahs in Tehran has continued to hold the highest level of security clearance and visit the White House. //

Senior Department of Defense official Ariane Tabatabai participated in multiple meetings organized by the White House’s Presidential Personnel Office, which is responsible for recruiting and vetting scores of nominees across the government, visitor logs reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.

Tabatabai was at the White House just two months after Semafor revealed she was a key member of a secretive Iranian influence group, the Iran Experts Initiative, that reported back to Tehran’s foreign ministry, according to the logs. She participated in at least seven other White House gatherings throughout the end of 2023 and into April 2024, mixing with officials from a range of cabinet-level agencies. //

Her patron is none other than Phil Gordon, Kamala Harris's national security adviser.

Clinton's village involved outside influences on your child. However, the real village that it takes to raise a child is one of extended family members, and that's a decaying idea.

Historically, family units weren't nuclear. They included grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, and more. The nuclear family as we knew it wasn't truly a thing until around the 1950s, when a self-contained family situation was the standard and a sign of success. Historically, multi-generational family households weren't necessarily uncommon. According to the American Enterprise Institute, only about eight percent of Americans between 18 and 50 live in the same household as their parents, as this is now considered a sort of failure.

Moreover, 55 percent of Americans live within an hour of extended family, while the more successful you are financially, the further away you likely live, according to The Survey Center on American Life. This separation often leaves families in an isolated state geographically, making extra-familial connection something that only happens on occasion instead of regularly. //

I don't think it's any accident that we're seeing fewer children born as the extended family becomes less important. Modernity and consumerism have played a large role in destroying the family unit, but the extended family unit has also taken a hit, and from many sides.

In his resignation letter, Dunleavy criticized how the committee conducted its investigation into the Afghanistan withdrawal and the series of failures involved in the disaster. He describes the situation as "a diplomatic failure, an intelligence failure, a military failure, a strategic failure, a policy failure, a planning failure, a political failure, a truth-telling failure, and a moral failure" and stresses that each of these aspects needed thorough investigation.

The investigator explained that his efforts to look into key aspects of the withdrawal were “repeatedly stymied by our chief investigator and by senior staff,” which resulted in what he calls “investigative paralysis.”

Much of Dunleavy’s frustration stems from a reluctance to hold high-ranking officials accountable for their missteps – especially Vice President Kamala Harris, who he describes as a key decision-maker in the withdrawal. //

In his closing remarks, Dunleavy expressed concerns that the failures of the Afghanistan withdrawal have not been adequately addressed and fears these oversights will have serious consequences for future U.S. foreign policy.

As Phil Root, the deputy director of the Defense Sciences Office at DARPA, recounted to Scharre, “A tank looks like a tank, even when it’s moving. A human when walking looks different than a human standing. A human with a weapon looks different.”

In order to train the artificial intelligence, it needed data in the form of a squad of Marines spending six days walking around in front of it. On the seventh day, though, it was time to put the machine to the test.

“If any Marines could get all the way in and touch this robot without being detected, they would win. I wanted to see, game on, what would happen,” said Root in the book. //

the Marines, being Marines, found several ways to bollix the AI and achieved a 100 percent success rate.

Two Marines, according to the book, somersaulted for 300 meters to approach the sensor. Another pair hid under a cardboard box.

“You could hear them giggling the whole time,” said Root in the book.

One Marine stripped a fir tree and held it in front of him as he approached the sensor. In the end, while the artificial intelligence knew how to identify a person walking, that was pretty much all it knew because that was all it had been modeled to detect. //

The moral of the story? Never bet against Marines, soldiers, or military folks in general. The American military rank-and-file has proven itself more creative than any other military in history. Whether that creativity is focused on finding and deleting bad guys or finding ways to screw with an AI and the eggheads who programmed it, my money's on the troops.

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The way the US corporate media transformed Kamala Harris from a national embarrassment to a transformative pioneer overnight -- without even pretending to care about anything that she thinks or believes -- is a powerful testament to how potent the science of propaganda is:
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The reintroduction of Kamala Harris https://ti.me/4fCTs5n
10:06 AM · Aug 12, 2024. //

The article is titled, "The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris,” and like similar headlines and stories in newspapers, magazines and websites around the country, they try to depict a candidate who’s been reborn, who’s undergone a magical metamorphosis and gone from an ugly caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly. //

But here’s the reality: Nothing about this woman has changed in the past 22 days, not her record, not her cringe-inducing mannerisms, not her lack of accomplishments as vice president—not a single thing. Yet the media is seemingly in lockstep pumping out story after story about how exciting and competent she’s suddenly become. //

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Kamala Harris has been reintroduced more times than the McDonalds McRib sandwich.

7:32 AM · Aug 12, 2024. //

anon-xztj
6 hours ago
Also remember or for those who didn't know Time Magazine had Adolf Hitler on their cover in 1938 as "Man of the Year"!