This seems mostly right; they’re more likely to think “I don’t understand a lot of these ideas, I’ll have to think about this for a while” or “I don’t understand a lot of these ideas, he must be pretty smart and that’s kinda cool” than to feel invalidated by this and try to submit to him in lieu of understanding.
This seems mostly right; they’re more likely to think “I don’t understand a lot of these ideas, I’ll have to think about this for a while” or “I don’t understand a lot of these ideas, he must be pretty smart and that’s kinda cool” than to feel invalidated by this and try to submit to him in lieu of understanding.