Explain in detail how the thing works, including how one part causes another part to move. You might quickly find that you do not understand it as well as you thought you did.
Psychologists call it the “illusion of explanatory depth”. Unless people really think through how they would explain something, they will often overestimate their understanding of it.
I wish that politicians would run that exercise before floating policy ideas like banning social media platforms from accepting younger users.
