(February 6, 2022 at 10:35 am)polymath257 Wrote:(February 5, 2022 at 10:53 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Ok I will chuck one. I have a mate who is a PhD in pure math. I understand the import of what he does. But many do not.
How do you explain it to those who are not highly educated in the sense that it all actually affects our everyday lives?
Usually poorly.
How do you describe to first graders what a whorehouse is?
Haha. I have two sprogs of my own. It is easier now that they are all growed up. But when they were young, when asked the pointy questions, I would make up any analogy on the fly. Not necessarily good analogies, just whatever came to mind on the fly.
That said, I have lost track of how often they chucked some careful reasoning at me. I love how some random reasoning of theirs would make me go "Wait, what?".
