However I question whether a lack of memorable explanations is a real problem with our world. I personally don’t feel a need for more explanations of trivial things. Aren’t there enough already? If we did have Arbital with explanations like that, who would be the audience? And what would be the intended effect? People who don’t want to know will not read it, and people who want to know should have figured it out already.
Well, this experiment was about supply, not demand. Would people want to show off cool explanations to each other, without students? It seems like no. That suggests some follow-up experiments. You can also do experiments to test demand, they would have to be different though.
There is a whole book of spurious correlations.
However I question whether a lack of memorable explanations is a real problem with our world. I personally don’t feel a need for more explanations of trivial things. Aren’t there enough already? If we did have Arbital with explanations like that, who would be the audience? And what would be the intended effect? People who don’t want to know will not read it, and people who want to know should have figured it out already.
Well, this experiment was about supply, not demand. Would people want to show off cool explanations to each other, without students? It seems like no. That suggests some follow-up experiments. You can also do experiments to test demand, they would have to be different though.