There are three different types of people who can't catch on.

There are three different types of people who can't catch on.

Explaining something new from scratch in a way that people with no knowledge of it can understand is very costly.

Usually they don't.

Whether or not you can catch it in that case depends on the state of knowledge of the recipient.

There are three different types of people who can't catch on.

Who presume to be correct based on their trust in the author.

People withholding in neutral.

Those who presume that it is an error because of the backlash against the author.

Why the backlash?

People who care about hierarchy are jealous when individuals they regard as lower than themselves are held in higher esteem than they are.

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