{"id":18077,"date":"2019-07-18T08:55:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T15:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=18077"},"modified":"2019-07-18T08:56:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T15:56:13","slug":"dont-tell-your-audience-what-they-know-or-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2019\/07\/18\/dont-tell-your-audience-what-they-know-or-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t tell your audience what they know or feel"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I understand why people who are giving talks or writing articles use phrases like these that assume a shared experience:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>We\u2019ve all had the experience of \u2026<\/li>\r\n  <li>Everyone here knows \u2026<\/li>\r\n  <li>You\u2019d be surprised at \u2026<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>But I\u2019d like to recommend not doing that. Such phrases are very often inaccurate (twice yesterday, presenters said things like these and then were contradicted by audience members), and when they\u2019re inaccurate, they can alienate audience members and distract from the point that you\u2019re trying to make. And even when they\u2019re accurate, they don\u2019t add much.<\/p>\r\n<p>Some possible alternatives:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Here\u2019s a common experience: \u2026<\/li>\r\n  <li>Many of you may already know this, but in case not: \u2026<\/li>\r\n  <li>I was surprised at \u2026<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-improving-society","category-writing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18079,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18077\/revisions\/18079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}