Depends on the speaker’s rate of unfamiliar information density.
The more information they present orally per unit time, and the less I am unfamiliar with the info, the slower they need to go. Better pictures / animation massively boosts my rate of information uptake.
E.g., PBS Spacetime. The host is an efficient communicator and talks at a moderate rate but the topic is usually some super freaky physics stuff. And the diagrams are ok but not amazing. So I find myself playing 1x and pausing often as my brain melts.
The Minute Physics guy is usually efficient, a bit fast, but the illustrations are great. So if the topic isn’t blowing my mind too much, 1x no sweat.
Some folks are less efficient and use a lot of words to say hardly anything. Some talk slowly, stumble, even pause a lot. Those I run at 1.5x or even 2x (especially if inefficient and slow) or else it drives me nuts with impatience.
Depends on the speaker’s rate of unfamiliar information density.
The more information they present orally per unit time, and the less I am unfamiliar with the info, the slower they need to go. Better pictures / animation massively boosts my rate of information uptake.
E.g., PBS Spacetime. The host is an efficient communicator and talks at a moderate rate but the topic is usually some super freaky physics stuff. And the diagrams are ok but not amazing. So I find myself playing 1x and pausing often as my brain melts.
The Minute Physics guy is usually efficient, a bit fast, but the illustrations are great. So if the topic isn’t blowing my mind too much, 1x no sweat.
Some folks are less efficient and use a lot of words to say hardly anything. Some talk slowly, stumble, even pause a lot. Those I run at 1.5x or even 2x (especially if inefficient and slow) or else it drives me nuts with impatience.