Members of communities share common assumptions, practices and understanding of ideas that are often not familiar to those outside the community.

Which of the folllowing examples would be familiar to most scientists or other academics (people who work in universities in various fields), but would be confusing or unknown to many people in the general community?

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Members of communities share common assumptions, practices and understanding of ideas that are often not familiar to those outside the community. 
 
 Which of the folllowing examples would be familiar to most scientists or other academics (people who work in universities in various fields), but would be confusing or unknown to many people in the general community?

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Use of a wide variety of graphs and statistics to communicate information.

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The process and function of peer review.

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Use of scientific terminology.

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Knowledge of the Fortran programming language.

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