Mr. Dennis Schatz
Senior Vice President for Strategic Programs, Pacific Science Center
Overcoming Your Expert Blind Spot
We all have expert blind spots. These keep us from explaining to others what we know extremely well. Scientists are especially prone to this. However, scientists have an important responsibility to communicate their research in an understandable manner – and to do so in a way that encourages the public to learn more about the subject and to understand implications of research on daily living. This presentation explores the nature of the expert blind spot and uses the research concerning how people learn to identify key strategies to explain scientific concepts so the public understands them.
