As a scientist, I feel this acutely. I can bore the *fuck* out of you with detailed explanations for stuff, so for lay audiences, I have to truncate. What I truncate usually depends on how much familiarity I think you (or the bulk of the audience I'm trying to reach) have with basic or intermediate concepts, and some of it has to do with how much mis-information in I'm aware of that's circulating in the Gen Pop.
Do you gain more acceptance by explaining how you produce useful information. To many audiences I think the answer is likely to be yes. Will the sum of those audiences out weight the audiences for whom the process is too complex and prefer simple bold statements. We seem to be living the experiment.
As a scientist, I feel this acutely. I can bore the *fuck* out of you with detailed explanations for stuff, so for lay audiences, I have to truncate. What I truncate usually depends on how much familiarity I think you (or the bulk of the audience I'm trying to reach) have with basic or intermediate concepts, and some of it has to do with how much mis-information in I'm aware of that's circulating in the Gen Pop.
Do you gain more acceptance by explaining how you produce useful information. To many audiences I think the answer is likely to be yes. Will the sum of those audiences out weight the audiences for whom the process is too complex and prefer simple bold statements. We seem to be living the experiment.