What do you think may be the clearest means of communicating information between people, and for what reasons?
What do you think may be the clearest means of communicating information between people, and for what reasons?
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There are a lot of ways to interpret this question, it really depends on the information and the people.
Between experts trained in the method of communication? Between experts and a general audience? One expert and one non-expert? Is it technical data? Nuanced opinion? Simple message?
There are a lot of ways to interpret this question, it really depends on the information and the people.
Hence why OP is asking for better ways to communicate.
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There are a lot of ways to interpret this question, it really depends on the information and the people.
This is intentional. When I post to this AskLemmy community I try to frame my questions to fit its description:
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
I fall back to more specific questions here when I can't find a relevant, active community to post to (or forget to look for one).
This is too broad. It's like asking "what's the best wrench to tighten nuts and bolts?" For some applications that's a torque wrench, some it's a box end, some it's a socket wrench, some it's a crescent wrench, sometimes it's a pair of vice grips and a hammer. Anything that could properly be called a mode of communication has use cases where it's clearer than others.
The OBD code that's unintelligible to the lay person is the clearest way to communicate a discrete engine problem to a mechanic. A graph that plots a particular change over time might perfectly communicate the raw data, while being incapable of communicating narrative context. A meme image or referential quote might perfectly communicate a specific emotional concept to a broad group that gets the reference, while being totally opaque to those who don't.
I follow ya, I have trouble writing these questions to thread the needle between too broad and too narrow. Too broad and understandably, I get responses correctly calling it out as you have, yet too narrow and it doesn't produce the conversation and different responses I'm interested in seeing.
I suggest breaking it down into sub questions based on expertise of the audience and nature of the information: technical, narrative, cultural, emotional, etc.