“This may also be somewhat pedantic, but in something like quantum physics, because of this gap in knowledge, it’d be very obvious who the professor was to an audience that doesn’t know quantum physics, even if it wasn’t made explicitely clear beforehand.”—I met one guy who was pretty convincing about confabulating quantum physics to some people, even though it was obvious to me he was just stringing random words together. Not that I know even the basics of quantum physics. He could actually speak really fluently and confidently—just everything was a bunch of non-sequitors/new age mysticism. I can imagine a professor not very good at public speaking who would seem less convincing.
“This may also be somewhat pedantic, but in something like quantum physics, because of this gap in knowledge, it’d be very obvious who the professor was to an audience that doesn’t know quantum physics, even if it wasn’t made explicitely clear beforehand.”—I met one guy who was pretty convincing about confabulating quantum physics to some people, even though it was obvious to me he was just stringing random words together. Not that I know even the basics of quantum physics. He could actually speak really fluently and confidently—just everything was a bunch of non-sequitors/new age mysticism. I can imagine a professor not very good at public speaking who would seem less convincing.