From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Dec 10 2002 - 01:30:15 MST
Hubert writes (in praise of good explanations)
> A neglected form of intelligence and creativity that is not captured with
> IQ measurement for example is the ability to jump down from the academical
> horse and explain connections and causalities about black holes in an
> everyday language without involving three letter words and mathematical
> formula so that Average Joe might get encouraged to lay aside his horoscope
> papers and to reinforce this initial knowledge.
Yes, quite so. Also, sometimes I wonder just how well people
understand things who cannot express what they know in every-
day language. "Any scientist who cannot explain to an eight-
year-old what he is doing is a charlatan" ---Kurt Vonnegut in
Cat's Cradle.
Lee
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