That was a hypothesis of mine too, but it seems to only scratches the surface. If teacher stops to reflect, they’ll usually realize that it was silly to try to teach differential equations to someone off the street. It’s not that they “actually” think there’s a short inferential distance, it’s that they didn’t ask themself the question of what the inferential distance is in the first place.
Our intuitions are more geared toward the assumption that everybody knows most of what we know.
That was a hypothesis of mine too, but it seems to only scratches the surface. If teacher stops to reflect, they’ll usually realize that it was silly to try to teach differential equations to someone off the street. It’s not that they “actually” think there’s a short inferential distance, it’s that they didn’t ask themself the question of what the inferential distance is in the first place.