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A term for lack of perspective on your own contextual knowledge? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by pr06lefs@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Is there a term for that phenomenon where someone gets so far into a topic that they become unaware of how much contextual knowledge they have about it?

Then they write some inscrutable technical docs, use unexplained acronyms, or tell a story about “he”, "she’ and/or “they” where you have no idea who they’re talking about.

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

relevant

Relevant XKCD

Edit: is there no way to get a thumbnail to render this, can the image be found and linked to rather than page?

Edit2: can we get a bot that autoconverts links and stuff to this, people would just have to remember to input the image url not the page in which it appears

[–] zzzz@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I see the image!

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

![relevant](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/average_familiarity.png)

*[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/2501/)*

Use the format as given here without the backticks like this