I apologize. I think the topic is very large, and inferential distances would best be bridged either by the fortuitous coincidence of us having studied similar things (like two multidisciplinary researchers with similar interests accidentally meeting at a conference), or else I’d have to create a non-trivially structured class full of pre-tests and post-tests and micro-lessons, to get someone from “the hodge-podge of high school math and history and biology and econ and civics and cognitive science and theology and computer science that might be in any random literate person’s head… through various claims widely considered true in various fields, up to the active interdisciplinary research area where I know that I am confused as I try to figure out if X or not-X (or variations on X that are better formulated) is actually true”. Sprawl of words like this is close to the best I can do with my limited public writing budget :-(
Can you reformulate your thoughts to be more readable? It’s quite hard to make heads or tails out of the points listed.
I apologize. I think the topic is very large, and inferential distances would best be bridged either by the fortuitous coincidence of us having studied similar things (like two multidisciplinary researchers with similar interests accidentally meeting at a conference), or else I’d have to create a non-trivially structured class full of pre-tests and post-tests and micro-lessons, to get someone from “the hodge-podge of high school math and history and biology and econ and civics and cognitive science and theology and computer science that might be in any random literate person’s head… through various claims widely considered true in various fields, up to the active interdisciplinary research area where I know that I am confused as I try to figure out if X or not-X (or variations on X that are better formulated) is actually true”. Sprawl of words like this is close to the best I can do with my limited public writing budget :-(
So are you planning to convince anyone?
Because so far this jumble of thoughts seems unlikely to be genuinely convincing, let alone to move folks in Washington to do something.