I really like this article, but I have a background in the subject material. How do folks who don’t have prior familiarity with the subject matter find the inferential distance?
I’m hoping that I’ll be able to keep the posts within the realm of reasonable understanding for most people on this site by focusing on principles, patterns, and analogies to other fields; however, if at any point I’m failing to do so, I will ardently welcome that being pointed out.
The assumptions I made when constructing my tentative post outline were that readers here were likely to have some general scientific background, and at least a high school level of chemistry. I recognize that the latter might not be a good assumption.
(If you, or anyone else has suggestions at any point on how to improve the usefulness of these posts for those without a background in related fields, please let me know!)
I haven’t done much biology since my high school days (apart from reading gnxp and the occasional article on the ’net / Wikipedia, and hanging out with biology students in university), and didn’t find it too hard to follow.
I really like this article, but I have a background in the subject material. How do folks who don’t have prior familiarity with the subject matter find the inferential distance?
I’m a physicist who took a biology class once, and I found it easy to follow.
I’m hoping that I’ll be able to keep the posts within the realm of reasonable understanding for most people on this site by focusing on principles, patterns, and analogies to other fields; however, if at any point I’m failing to do so, I will ardently welcome that being pointed out.
The assumptions I made when constructing my tentative post outline were that readers here were likely to have some general scientific background, and at least a high school level of chemistry. I recognize that the latter might not be a good assumption.
(If you, or anyone else has suggestions at any point on how to improve the usefulness of these posts for those without a background in related fields, please let me know!)
I haven’t done much biology since my high school days (apart from reading gnxp and the occasional article on the ’net / Wikipedia, and hanging out with biology students in university), and didn’t find it too hard to follow.