Yes indeed! Whenever anyone asks “How did you do that?”, I just say “Science!”
When people ask “How did you do that?”, their intention isn’t usually to understand.
They may want to know “What is going on?” meaning “Is this an unusual situation—am I in danger?”
They may want be interests in acquiring the capability to do the same ‘trick’, just like they’d ask Penn and Teller; hoping for an answer along the lines of “You use a foobar arm motion detection device; you can buy them from apple.com″
They may have several other agendas for asking such a question. Their ‘curiosity’ wanes at the point your responses stop matching their mental script, the point at which it eliminates the branch they’re interested in. If they have a hard coded belief “Science is difficult, I’m not interested in stuff that might have equations in”, then by answering “Science!” rather than presenting the same info but using different wording, you’re sending them a ‘stop’ cue.
When people ask “How did you do that?”, their intention isn’t usually to understand.
They may want to know “What is going on?” meaning “Is this an unusual situation—am I in danger?”
They may want be interests in acquiring the capability to do the same ‘trick’, just like they’d ask Penn and Teller; hoping for an answer along the lines of “You use a foobar arm motion detection device; you can buy them from apple.com″
They may have several other agendas for asking such a question. Their ‘curiosity’ wanes at the point your responses stop matching their mental script, the point at which it eliminates the branch they’re interested in. If they have a hard coded belief “Science is difficult, I’m not interested in stuff that might have equations in”, then by answering “Science!” rather than presenting the same info but using different wording, you’re sending them a ‘stop’ cue.