Think about playing catch. You don't just throw the ball as hard as you can — you throw it so the other person can actually catch it. Miss that, and it's not always their fault. Sometimes it was just a bad throw.
Communication works exactly the same way.
Two radios only pick each other up when they're tuned to the same frequency. You can be shouting into the mic, but if you're not on the same station as the person listening, none of it comes through clearly.
Communication isn't really about being clear, or being right, or winning the exchange. It's about one thing: getting what's in your head into someone else's, accurately — a good throw, caught.
Two questions. Not a test — just locking in what you just read.
In the playing-catch metaphor, what does a 'bad throw' represent?
What is communication really about, according to this lesson?
This is what actually builds your Participant record — separate from the score above, which just resets per browser. One email, logged once per lesson.
Keep stacking reps like this, and something starts adding up. That's not by accident.