9. Is jargon providing you status?

Is using jargon giving you more status? Common advice suggests avoiding jargon during presentations, as it can make it harder for your audience to grasp the information. However, some speakers want to signal their expertise. They believe that a presentation lacking jargon may come across as too simplistic and may undermine their credibility. In this podcast, we will discuss the use and function of jargon, focusing on one key question: does it help you gain status?

=== Sources used for this podcast

LinkedIn-poll about status and jargon: 

https://l1nk.dev/oUH8e 

Article about people disliking complex language:

https://neerlandistiek.nl/2022/12/hoger-opgeleiden-hechten-meer-aan-eenvoudige-teksten/

Science paper: https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/TVT2022.2.002.MAAT#CIT0031

Reading dies in complexity: Online news consumers prefer simple writing

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn2555

The use of jargon kills people’s interest in science, politics:

https://news.osu.edu/the-use-of-jargon-kills-peoples-interest-in-science-politics/ 

Jargon as a barrier to effective science communication: Evidence from metacognition

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0963662519865687?journalCode=pusa 

Problems with using long words needlessly:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/acp.1178 

Articles about the relationship between low status leads to more jargon:

1. Authors from lower-status schools included more jargon in their poster titles:
2. https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.16568abstract
3. Archival analyses found a low status → jargon effect across 64 k dissertation titles:
4. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749597820303666 

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