{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/study-for-an-explanation-you-will-owe",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1081",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Study for an explanation you will owe",
  "summary": "Give the next reading session an audience.",
  "kind": "heuristic",
  "body": "Before studying, identify a person who will need the central idea and one decision it supports. Organise your notes around an explanation for them. Experiments on expecting to teach concern this preparation mindset, not the claim that teaching automatically proves expertise.",
  "limits": [
    "Do not present your first reconstruction as authoritative. Check it against the source before someone acts on it."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "explain-complexity-50"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-F1FAF01743378EFE"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "In two experiments, expecting to teach a text was associated with better organised recall than expecting to take a test, without participants actually teaching.",
      "source_id": "RS-F1FAF01743378EFE",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Not evidence that confidently explaining an unchecked account establishes correctness.",
      "locator": "Abstract, experiments and results."
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "You read carefully but finish with disconnected facts."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Do not present your first reconstruction as authoritative. Check it against the source before someone acts on it."
  ],
  "example": "Before reading a replication guide, you prepare to explain to a new colleague why a successful send is not necessarily a completed business update.",
  "check": "Does the explanation connect the facts into a correct account, and can you answer a new question?",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-F1FAF01743378EFE",
      "title": "Expecting to teach enhances learning and organization of knowledge in free recall of text passages",
      "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24845756/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1081",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1082",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/draw-the-process-while-you-explain-it"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-13B0CC3ED8022AB1",
      "title": "Learn and explain without hiding the difficult part",
      "url": "/collections/learn-and-explain-without-hiding-the-difficult-part"
    }
  ]
}