I’m curious if there’s a term for a variant where you assume that when someone does definitely share the information you have, that they have also seen the implications of that information.
Where you and someone else both have the same level of information but where there are implications of that information.
In the past I’ve found myself to make too many assumptions about what others have concluded from information available to both of us and skip over nodes in the reasoning chain because i believe the other person to have already passed them which can lead to some confused conversations and backtracking.
Examples would be where the details of some chemical reaction have been laid out or the rules of some system or state machine are laid out and they imply a conclusion but the other person hasn’t followed the implication .
Or where I know person A is is in situation X and person B knows that person A is in situation X and I talk to B with the assumption that the person A will be taking the most obvious responses to X.
My SO has rightly scolded me in the past for over-assuming about what will be obvious to the people I’m dealing with and what I assume them to have considered if they’re domain experts, particularly when dealing with anything financial because it’s come back to bite us in the past.
I’m curious if there’s a term for a variant where you assume that when someone does definitely share the information you have, that they have also seen the implications of that information.
Where you and someone else both have the same level of information but where there are implications of that information.
In the past I’ve found myself to make too many assumptions about what others have concluded from information available to both of us and skip over nodes in the reasoning chain because i believe the other person to have already passed them which can lead to some confused conversations and backtracking.
Examples would be where the details of some chemical reaction have been laid out or the rules of some system or state machine are laid out and they imply a conclusion but the other person hasn’t followed the implication .
Or where I know person A is is in situation X and person B knows that person A is in situation X and I talk to B with the assumption that the person A will be taking the most obvious responses to X.
My SO has rightly scolded me in the past for over-assuming about what will be obvious to the people I’m dealing with and what I assume them to have considered if they’re domain experts, particularly when dealing with anything financial because it’s come back to bite us in the past.