I remember a TV interview I did with a friend on Quantified Self. One of the elements was my friend measuring stress with a emWave2. In the process of dumbing down the complexity of what we were doing to make it TV compatible, my friend in the end said that he was measuring heart rate with the emWave2 to measure stress.
The thing that emWave2 actually measure is heart rate variability but there was no time to explain what heart rate variabilty is. If a viewer would actually understand the subject matter they would rightfully find it strange that my friend said he measures heartrate for stress but for the average viewer that inaccuracy wouldn’t be a big deal.
Complexity reduction like that happens when focusing on expressing oneselves in a way that works on TV and the radio.
I remember a TV interview I did with a friend on Quantified Self. One of the elements was my friend measuring stress with a emWave2. In the process of dumbing down the complexity of what we were doing to make it TV compatible, my friend in the end said that he was measuring heart rate with the emWave2 to measure stress.
The thing that emWave2 actually measure is heart rate variability but there was no time to explain what heart rate variabilty is. If a viewer would actually understand the subject matter they would rightfully find it strange that my friend said he measures heartrate for stress but for the average viewer that inaccuracy wouldn’t be a big deal.
Complexity reduction like that happens when focusing on expressing oneselves in a way that works on TV and the radio.
I see, thank you for this example.
I’ll remember to prepare the dumbed down explanations in advance, in my plans I’ll have to communicate a lot in the future.