Why is it so hard to accept that not everybody can stay awake while reading a scientific article?
I’m a PhD researcher and even I struggle staying awake sometimes.
No seriously, I fully agree, scientific articles are written for a specific, niche audience, i.e. not the general public.
But science should be communicated to the public, in as accessible a format as possible.
If you fail to do that, you get people saying “science is boring”, or worse, mistrust of science like it exists today.
And another thing: this shouldn’t be either-or between watching a video and reading an article.
Watch the video, get a general understanding of the topic, see if it interests you.
If you want to know more, dive into the article to deepen that understanding.
I guarantee you’ll get a better understanding that way, because watching the video has already given you a general structure of the topic.
Reading then serves to add details in that structure.
The elitist attitude that “videos can’t teach you anything” or “information is worthless if consumed as a video” just bothers me. It’s just contra productive to the goal of disseminating knowledge and understanding to completely ignore or belittle one medium.
I’m a PhD researcher and even I struggle staying awake sometimes.
No seriously, I fully agree, scientific articles are written for a specific, niche audience, i.e. not the general public. But science should be communicated to the public, in as accessible a format as possible. If you fail to do that, you get people saying “science is boring”, or worse, mistrust of science like it exists today.
And another thing: this shouldn’t be either-or between watching a video and reading an article. Watch the video, get a general understanding of the topic, see if it interests you. If you want to know more, dive into the article to deepen that understanding. I guarantee you’ll get a better understanding that way, because watching the video has already given you a general structure of the topic. Reading then serves to add details in that structure.
Thanks, I fully agree with you.
The elitist attitude that “videos can’t teach you anything” or “information is worthless if consumed as a video” just bothers me. It’s just contra productive to the goal of disseminating knowledge and understanding to completely ignore or belittle one medium.