I started tutoring other kids in grade school and eventually got paid for it as a side gig later in life. If I ended up covering electronics and/or general electricity, I saw the same thing I saw as an undergrad taking EE courses: confusion. A lot of people found the situation counter-intuitive. It required extra mental labor for them. Hence, multiplied against millions of people, there's overall lost time.
And this isn't just in young people, either. Knew a guy who swore up and down that the "electron holes" really represent positrons.
Bad notation, weird syntax, poor choices in variable names, and so on, all of these are a collective drag which could be streamlined away.
I started tutoring other kids in grade school and eventually got paid for it as a side gig later in life. If I ended up covering electronics and/or general electricity, I saw the same thing I saw as an undergrad taking EE courses: confusion. A lot of people found the situation counter-intuitive. It required extra mental labor for them. Hence, multiplied against millions of people, there's overall lost time.
And this isn't just in young people, either. Knew a guy who swore up and down that the "electron holes" really represent positrons.
Bad notation, weird syntax, poor choices in variable names, and so on, all of these are a collective drag which could be streamlined away.