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Bad Explanations

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If there ever is or was something during your education that you didn't quite understand, know that you were given a bad explanation. Having been taught even by MIT grads and given bad explanations, I can assure you that bad explanations are all too common in academia. The identifying mark of a bad explanation is that it makes it difficult to extrapolate. Consider a bad explanation of what a dictionary is: "A dictionary defines words". It makes some sense. If you want to find the meaning of a word, you can use a dictionary. But try to extrapolate. Why are there more than one definitions of words? Why don't dictionary makers just define one word in a single way to avoid confusion? Because the explanation of the dictionary was bad, it is difficult to answer these questions. The correct explanation of a dictionary is "A dictionary RECORDS how words are used". With this explanation it is possible to extrapolate. Like why are there multiple meanings of the same words? Because people u

Bad Explanations Home Bad Explanations If there ever is or was something during your education that you didn't quite understand, know that you were given a bad explanation. Having been taught even by MIT grads and given bad explanations, I can assure you that bad explanations are all too common in academia. The identifying mark of a bad explanation is that it makes it difficult to extrapolate. Consider a bad explanation of what a dictionary is: "A dictionary defines words". It makes some sense. If you want to find the meaning of a word, you can use a dictionary. But try to extrapolate. Why are

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