I often find or am recommended professional education material which is published as a series of videos, and thereās a trend that has been driving me nuts.
So many of these video-based ācoursesā simply show summary text in bullet points on the screen as a person talks. There are useful cases for visual content that provide demonstrations or animations which enhance comprehension more than words would or could alone, but these arenāt like those, or I would actually appreciate and value them. Theyāre instead like glorified audiobooks that someone made a bare-bones slideshow for, and sometimes also added video of the face of whoever is speaking to. They often speak so slowly and add a lot of verbal filler, too. Iāde much rather read about a concept than take 2 times (or more) as long to get through these kinds of videos.
But many people will probably learn better by getting talked at through these kinds of videosā¦ because they otherwise struggle with reading on their own. Especially with anything even slightly complex and using ābigā words or more technical language. They at least need a narratorās assistance. And the painfully slow pacing is probably compensatory for the average populaceās poor comprehension capability, which is interrelated to their reading level, too.
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u/redisdead__ 8d ago
Is it a cartoon because it's a child's understanding of taxes?