Academic Exchanges across Disciplines Must be Dumbed down to the Very Basics
Imagine you are sitting in an academic conference, listening to presentations by scholars from a field for which you have little background knowledge. Among the audience they are members who are from the same field as the presenters, and they listen intently to the presentations. Because they were able to comprehend the contents so thoroughly, at the Q&A session, they ask extremely detailed questions about the research presented, and a highly technical conversation between the presenter and the inquirer follows. You, people from other fields, neither understood the presentations nor the questions.