LOL again. I didn’t plan on responding, but since my inbox has been popping with this thread today and you’re willing to play along…
Excellent. Please tell them I sincerely appreciate them carrying the torch.
Not at all. Someone else recommended Edx, and I said it was worthwhile. That person also said the “biology lectures from MIT were first rate but they were so advanced that I gave up after about a few dozen.”
My response to you had nothing to do with Edx or even online videos in general. It had to do with your claims about the university being “easier” because of the “elegant” lectures while pontificating about how life and the world work at MIT. Nothing about that Edx review suggests ease or elegance to me once the deeper content hit the screen.
Never said it was bad. Just said it wasn’t “easy” or “elegant” (there’s those pesky claims of yours again). I learned a great deal even from Krugman.
Never said that either. I only stated some deliveries are neither “easy” nor “elegant” no matter how much preparation was done beforehand. (See a trend yet?) In fact, some of them might even come off as…<gasp>…phoned in!
You keep saying this for some reason, but I make no comments on motives since I have no idea. I only presented the perception of a great many in the audience, of which I have every idea since I was a member and still interact with members today.
Every single one of us is 100% the expert on the intent of our message. Our audience is 100% the expert in how it is perceived. If my message is not perceived as intended, that’s on me since I’m the one delivering it in the first place…unless of course your world doesn’t work that way in which case I stand corrected.
In the end, there are so many flaws in your talking points it’s hard to keep up. Rather than try to break them all down, I’ll just leave this here and call it a day. If forced to pick from this limited interaction though, I’d probably say strawman’s your strongest.
