Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170729051211/@comment-25936766-20170730060637

SpiritedDreaming wrote:.......Otherwise work off the idea that everyone has the same level of base knowledge you have and leave it out because it's just going to look, again, condescending. That's not a good idea. If I assume everyone knows as much as I do, I'll end up evoking that thing too frequently.

The moron thinks he knows and can do far more than he actually knows and actually can do, becoming a simpleton with delusions.

But the genius instead forgets not everyone is a genius or as much of a genius, and acts as if he thought things are simple to do and understand for everyone because they are simple for him.

That's the problem, as one gains skill in something. At first, one is too incompetent to realize they are incompetent. But when they become truly competent, they find it hard to remember not everyone else is.

Have you ever read a book to learn something, and hardly understood what it was teaching you? The Dunning-Kruger Effect is the culprit. Not everyone knows X, so better assume they don't know X than assume that they do.