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I don't think you're getting the example of left-handed scissors; try something like adaptation for red-green colourblindness, where you can't really train around it. Although that's physically based, which is going to be a distraction in the analogy; try the reported observation that some dyslexic people find Comic Sans easier to read.

Or trousers. One size does not fit all.

Or the people discussing the intuitive representation of Maxwells' equations themselves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23700295 - not everybody likes the equations, some people like pictures for a better understanding, but the equations-first people may not understand that.




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