A misunderstanding are comes from a failure in

1-    understand properly

2-    understand correctly

3-    something properly, 

4-    disagreement

5-    quarrel.

6-     wrong interpretation

Dear Peter

Thank you for inviting me to this question, any scientist can get  putting the wrong interpretation or not  understanding of something that is not correct most of time, so he still look for the correct one because he is researcher then he faced misunderstanding more till we are reaching to truth,

regards 

What causes misunderstanding?

I think prejudice and emotional judgment without proper analysis of the situation is responsible for misunderstanding.

Misunderstanding reveals the absence of proper scientific temperament in the person who misunderstands.

One who has the scientific attitude and analytical skill never misunderstands! 

Because, keeping an open mind is the foundation of scientific understanding.

When the mind is kept open, one will have the time and space to listen to the other, go through all kinds of evidences and apply reason to understand properly!

Therefore, why should one misunderstands if  scientific attitude is maintained?

Dear Peter, it´s just that:

.."the world is so logic" you say and this is the start of the error...

If we are in addition not aware of all the other not logical factors (we have two sides of the brain; more nervous connections go from the colon to the brain than the other way round; we are seeing more and more the importance of the hormones etc.) so misunderstanding may occur.

Even our logical system and the sciences are embedded in our personal culture and thus also influenced by it. I tried also to point out this in my last book On the Cultures of Mankind.

So we should develop a strategy to include the possibility of misunderstanding - what do you think?  - Hope you do not mind me sharing this good question...

Communication constraints: A single word in a dictionary has different meanings. When you rapidly talk, you do not have the time to define the words you are spelling out, e.g. to clearly indicate you are thinking about meaning X and not meaning Y of the same word X?

Dear Thomas and all dear others,

I do not "not mind", I thank you for sharing. And I agree: misunderstanding is normality. Look at the symbolic picture in the file:. misunderstanding must occur.

Thomas please give us the link to your book you metioned.

Thank you a lot!

dear Joseph,

no doubt, time is an important factor. you may be open, but in a hurry and therefore not in the mood to be able to listen. very correct.

Thank you

Peter

Thanks for inviting me. I personally feel it is simply due to the lack of communication, shortage love towards both and mainly do not give each other a single moment which creates distance......

Dear Peter,

thanks for your interest in my book and see the link below.

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?” ― Shannon L. Alder

dear Vladimir,

I am afraid your wish can not be fullfilled. For me misunderstanding is not dangerous. think it over. Misunderstanding must occur. We all are too different. As Thomas wrights we need strategies to manage misunderstandings. Than they will be helpfull in respect to gaining new ideas. Some creativity methodologies use this element!! So it can not be that bad.

Peter

Marcel shows a very important aspect. If you discuss you first have to define the meaning of your words. Natural scientist very often have different meanings of some expression as compared with medicine, psychology, social science. This learning process IS IMPORTANT if you create interdiciplinary working groups.

btw some time misunderstanding is used as a tool to blame the partners. 

do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind. ~ W. L. Bragg

The concept of 'misunderstanding' is harder to define in science. I think that most times, we call it 'misinterpretation' of maybe data, results or signals; these are things with which we do not connect on an emotional level. In a world where logic is the reference frame, 'misunderstanding' is difficult to define.

dear Hanno and Fateh,

yes I agree.

thank you

dear Olakunkle,

good point, we all believe that. Is it really that way? Read what Thomas wrote above.  First doubts are between his lines.

Let´s dicuss this point further on. It touches us all directly!

Peter

How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway. ~K. Brockmeier

dear Fateh, absolute right in my opinion. And how often does this all hapen also in science!!

“Life can be a misunderstanding, if we are ignorant of the right language or don’t try to learn it”

                                                     ― Erik Pevernagie

“Most of the problems in life are because:

We misunderstand people's intentions,

We don't listen and jump to conclusions,

Then we are too proud to apologise and too stubborn to forgive”

                                                                                      ― Mouloud Benzadi

@ Peter, Misunderstanding is a major process of evolution. The example of DNA repair and DNA synthesis is interesting. Spring is a misunderstanding of winter.  Teenage years is a misunderstanding of parent’s life and society. Rich life and conception is a misunderstanding of poor’s revolution.  Without misunderstanding the system might not evolve. In social life, it represents a “communication default”.

We do not have to understand all the same thing, we do not have to communicate all the same way and, we do not have to explain to everyone what we expect to be our thinking.  Illusion is part of the misunderstanding as what we have hoped to be “1” people might think that is “2”.  This is a problem for the social coding system between ages, cultures, poor’s and rich, ideas/creativity.  More we move to a new era of virtual life, globalization & communication, more the communication errors will be accumulated because we have to deal with many ideas and views.

We hear what we have born/decided/educated to hear. The tower of Babel illustrates this social organization. There is no possibility to speak all a single language and to understand all the same.   Apple is a Fruit and not a Computer. Apple is famous word of “misunderstanding”. Social evolution means that Apple should mean also computer or science and in that respect, misunderstanding is a main force of hope, differentiation and freedom.

The greatest distance between two people is misunderstanding.

Dear Peter, Dear RG colleagues,

I think, every person including me, must be honest with himself at first, or I can say, each one must understand himself as a first step, then transferring to his colleagues with clear thoughts and ideas, in this case, there will not be a misunderstanding!

Regards, and full like,

Yours, Emad

Dear Petet Eyerer,

Thank you for the invitation. you presented an excellent issue here, the greatest barrier to human communication, in my opinion. Misunderstanding happens everywhere, the frequency might depends on the level of education, understanding, positive thinking capability, economic and sociocultural status, custom, believe and state of mind etc of the individual/group you are interacting with. We think we understand people and we don’t know how they perceive our speech or talk. Mostly we do little effort or none to communicate what is going on inside us because of the feeling or belief we have that what we desire, feel and intend is crystal clear to others (as psychologists call it  “the transparency illusion”). 

Misunderstanding affects individuals, groups, nations and our glob. It has been cost us (humans) a lot throughout history and it seems it will in the future, but to what level will be our choice.

Dear Dr Eyerer ,

I must say , it never bothered me for a long long time that anybody "misunderstood me" .

I never take the pains of making anybody understand my point of view, starting with my parents . I tell what I have to tell , leave it to people to understand , if they do like it, well and good else , no regrets .

Even as a teacher I never forced my thought process on any of my students , if they want to follow me they would come and say/ask for better clarity.

Do I misunderstand people ?! I hope not . I am not a very good judge but I am very accommodating person ( RG) :)

Dear Aparna,

I am sure you are! :)

Peter

Misunderstanding have many reasons subjective and random. Good communication practices can resolve most of the problem but this is not always the case. This world is not ideal at all.

Regards

SM Najim

To understand what we can't understand and We believe that are understand .....are you understand  some thinks from than ...just for joke 

In one linguistics study (Schwartz 1977), the definition offered for misunderstanding was: "By 'misunderstanding' I mean an interpretation error that is discovered by its maker at least two utterances after it has been made." Which raises a number of questions [Schwartz] left unanswered, which seem worthy of further attention, among them: Is the 'maker' of a misunderstanding the one whose utterance is misunderstood or the one who misunderstands it? And, in what way is a misunderstanding 'discovered?' 

Thanks for the invitation. Colleagues have provided interesting responses. A big problem arises when a person misunderstands another person, intentionally, because of his/her own reasons.

Regards 

Dear colleague

The definition of a misunderstanding is a situation where something is not understood properly, or a quarrel or disagreement.

When you read something in a book and you don't understand its actual meaning but instead believe that it means something different entirely, this is an example of a misunderstanding of the book. You must simply explain to your friend that it was a matter of poor communication, of misunderstanding , of premature assumptions.

Thank you

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood. ~ B. Marcus

From my experience, misunderstanding in science is mainly caused by 2 reasons:

On RG I tend to ask for more information when it is clear that something is missing. Or - sometimes - I wait until the 'direction' becomes clearer. Nonetheless misunderstanding happens. When detected on RG, these issues are typically solved during the followup. Or by other members chiming in.

Regards

" Why and how does it happen in our precise scientific world where everything is so logic?"

I don´t think we all are absolutely logic and precise every time :-))

But we try to behave so that it will be true.

Self-decision about others without understanding what they exactly meant. 

failed to unerstand the actual goals of what you hear to .

Thanks for sharing this interesting question. There are many types of misunderstandings (which according to https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misunderstanding may be defined as: “a failure to understand”) in scientific community, some natural others not. Those that happen due to arrogance associated to lack of scientific background, and those resulting from pure evilness and bad faith are the worse in my opinion. See the difference in communication between St. Luke original phrases: “And on earth, peace to men of good will” that was reworded to "Peace on earth and good will to men!" … See the link

http://www.catholictradition.org/Children/men-goodwill.htm

One of my coworkers and I often argued violently on the problem of our research. At the beginning of the discussion, I always thought that he, younger than I, was wrong. Finally, however, I sometimes found that both of us were right. In such occasions, we respectively had a misunderstanding with each other's right opinion based on a different viewpoint. This experience taught me the followings: (1) Misunderstanding sometimes happens from sticking to a single viewpoint. (2) We can solve scientific misunderstanding with sufficient arguments.

Thanks for the invitation, Peter.

I'd say to begin with that "misunderstanding" is different from "disagreement." A misunderstanding could very well lead to a disagreement, but the misunderstanding is misinterpretation of some fact, data, idea, description.

There are many examples of misunderstandings in science and engineering. To me, these often result from unjustified "leaps of faith," or perhaps we can also call this "false assumptions."

Another frequent cause is misremembering. How many times, after a presentation, have we noticed that what we said was being repeated erroneously? It happens a lot. That's why I don't put as much faith in "face to face" communications as some people seem to. Too many distractions, and no easy way to play back what was said, to rectify the errors.

There are tons of examples, so here is one that comes to mind. A technical presentation to explain the advantages of "single frequency networks," which are broadcast networks in which multiple transmit towers transmit the same signal over the same frequency channel. A not-very-technically-savvy member of the audience makes a leap of faith: "Aha, sort of like lighting up a space with many floodlights, instead of just one big floodlight." So off he goes, with that leap of faith, describing the way an SFN would be arranged.

Ooops. His explanations are bound to be wrong, based on this leap of faith he made.

Misunderstanding is the lack of proper communication and thinking.

Thus, misunderstanding can encourage perceiving things in an unrealistic manner. Also, the former lays the foundation for irrational/illogical thinking which may lead to cognitive distortions.

Misunderstanding is the faulty reasoning or an inaccurate/inadequate mental structure . The components of misunderstanding would be Misconceptions, Alternative Conceptions, Alternative Frameworks, Preconceptions, Naive Ideas, Erroneous ideas, Blind Beliefs, Misinterpretation of  Facts, mistakes, Errors, Misleading Ideas etc.

Thank you for inviting me to participate.

• Misunderstanding can be interpreted as Malcomprehension, but it also has synonyms such as Mistake, Error, Equivocation, Misconception, Oversight
• All these are terms that are used in human communication, both written and oral (verbal),
• In the Simple Human Communication Model, they mean or are explained by errors in the transmission of the message (content), noise during communication and errors in the decoding or perception of the content or message.
• All terms and concepts are covered within the semantic field of Cognitive Bias.

http://www.wordreference.com/sinonimos/malentendido

http://www.wordreference.com/sinonimos/incomprension

• In the field of Science, like all human activity, by extension these terms are also applied in direct communication between scientists, and sometimes in written (or mediated by telecommunications and mass media) type research protocols , essays, theories, hypotheses and, in short, in all types of publication
• However, the most used terms in technical and scientific publications are "Error, Deviation and Bias"
• Error and Bias have similar meaning in scientific communication
• The meaning of the above concepts is not exactly the same when it comes to the Statistical Terms: Standard Deviation, Variance and Standard Error of the Average.

regards

Jose Luis

Gracias por invitarme a participar

Malentendido se puede interpretar como Malcomprensión, pero también tiene sinónimos como Incomprensión,  y Malinterpretación.

• Todos estos son términos que se utilizan en la comunicación humana, tanto en la escrita como en la oral (verbal),
• En el Modelo de Comunicación Humana Simple, significan o se explican por errores en la transmisión del mensaje (contenido), ruido durante la comunicación y errores en la decodificación o percepción del contenido o mensaje.
• Todos los términos y conceptos están contemplados dentro del campo semántico del Sesgo Cognitivo.

http://www.wordreference.com/sinonimos/malentendido

http://www.wordreference.com/sinonimos/incomprension

• En el campo de la Ciencia, como toda actividad humana, por extensión también esos términos se aplican en la comunicación directa entre científicos, y en ocasiones, en la comunicación escrita (o mediada por las telecomunicaciones y los mass-media) tipo protocolos de investigación, ensayos, teorías, hipótesis y en suma, en todo tipo de publicación
• Sin embargo, los términos más utilizados en las publicaciones técnicas y científicas, son "Error, Desviación y Sesgo" 
• Error y Sesgo tienen significado parecido en la comunicación científica
• El significado de los anteriores conceptos no es exactamente el mismo cuando se trata de los Términos Estadísticos: Desviación Estándar, Varianza y Error Estándar de la Media.

Saludos

José Luis

Misundestanding can be both a problem of comprehension or a problem of communication. The cooperative principle of Grice illustrates it.

“Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood”

                                                                ― Israelmore Ayivor

Misunderstanding is due to 

What is misunderstanding?

Misunderstanding is a situation of disconnectedness during communication between 2 or more parties.  Both parties don't  understand or understand wrongly what the other party tries to transpire the message across.

Why and how does it happen in our precise scientific world where everything is so logic?

In scientific context, misunderstanding can occurs due to different parties especially from different disciplines can misconstrue the messages / contents differently.  In order address this issue of misunderstanding, following approach can be considered:

It is true that science is based on logical observations. However, sometimes there exists some space for assumptions. These assumptions may be right and wrong. Wrong assumptions lead us to misunderstanding.

Misunderstanding in personal life is also created by those assumptions which prove wrong.

Well, thanks for the question first. To me misunderstanding is a phenomena. The big reason is not using the same logic, in interacting with people, which we use in scientific study/ research.

A student of science who keeps an open mind to everything and every situations always has the capacity to 'believe' all the perceptions at 'different degrees' depending on the quantity and quality of evidence.

To ' wait for' and to 'weigh' evidence is the characteristic nature of all who maintains the scientific attitude.

That is why Bernard Shaw once said "genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience"

Therefore, lack of 'patience' definitely lead to misunderstandings

To be patient, one must be physically, mentally, spiritually and intellectually healthy. That is why, 'patients are not patient enough'

Therefore, those who understands properly has to accept the 'weakness' of those who misunderstands.

If both are 'impatient' or 'ill-healthy' misunderstanding will continue for a long time, till at the least, one become healthy enough to understands the 'impatience of the other'

Therefore, the mediator who tries to avoid the misconceptions between any two needs to understands first who is really ill-healthy!

Apart from reasons, 'love' also enable persons to avoid misunderstanding - because, as per St Paul, 'true love' has the capacity to 'believe everything, forget everything and always hope for the best'

Therefore, if there exists 'true love'  between two persons, there cannot be any misunderstandings !

In other words, to be in true love, there should be proper intellectual capability in both for the same too!

Therefore, to be in 'identical brain wave length' is also a factor for establishing 'good companionship' or 'true love' without misunderstandings! 

Misunderstanding is an interpretation of a matter in a wrong way or to have occurred as a result of one’s failure to admit his/her mistake. It.is one common trend or issue that happens in every relationship. Whether you’re best friends or best lovers, there will be moments when you’d have disagreement over a matter.

a failure to understand something correctly.  putting the wrong interpretation on; "hismisinterpretation of the question caused his error"; "there was nomistaking her meaning".an understanding of something that is notcorrect; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistakeabout his intentions"; 

Misunderstanding is a kind of misalignment between:

Ideas from different persons.

OR

words spoken from the heard.

OR

between behaviors

and so on.....

It is the failure of the receiver to understand, intercept, misjudge or not agree with the words or hehaviour of the sender.

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

                                                                          ----  Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

                                                               ----  Andre Gide

A frequent source of misunderstanding is that we assume (wrongly) in others knowledge of the facts that we know ourselves.

Life can be a misunderstanding, if we are ignorant of the right language or don’t try to learn it. « If lions could speak, we would not understand them. » says Ludwig Wittgenstein. If we make an effort, however, we could manage to understand. ( “ Life was a misunderstanding » ) ~ E. Pevernagie

The concept of 'misunderstanding' is difficult to define in science. In the behavioural sciences, a researcher may misunderstand ( or is it misinterprete) animal behaviour,but he/she can't apologise for that, making it more of a misinterpretation than misunderstanding.

Written or pronounced words are just multi-meaning communication elements, and only the author’s thought allow to shape and limit their ambiguity into a clear precise content to be difficult to misunderstand. There are people who are either very scares on words or in a crunch of time, or careless to double think or double check of what they say or write. It is all a source of misunderstanding.

There is a contradiction between a desire to be very clear and the author’s ability to shape one’s thought in a concise manner. Also, it could be a problem with either the author’s eloquence, or author’s own misunderstanding of the logic and subject matter. Either way, it may lead to redundancy of the meanings, logical and factual contradictions, and emotional ambiguity possibly generated by the author’s words.

In summary, a misunderstanding is a transaction result of at least two parties involved. However, it can also be a chain reaction involving multiple parties and multiple transactions, which makes misunderstanding a quite frequent event. 

Dear Adejoke, dear Len, dear all

I just open RG this morning and am very impressed about the high numbers of your appreciated answers. Thank you all.

Adejoke and Len are the last ones who answered and I pick your aswers out to thank and say: very good remarked.

Now I will read the other 35 answers.

Have a nice day or night where ever you are.

Peter

dear Joseph,

thank you. impressive!!!

Peter

Dear Han,

thank you again for precise answeing the questions!!! A very important property to avoid misunderstanding.

Peter

dear Tatsuo,

a very good excample

Peter

dear Albert,

great. Thank you very much.

Peter

dear José,

very important definitions.

Thank you

Peter

Dear Antonio, Ulli, Josef, Barbara, Fateh, Ahmed, Bob, Aristidis, dear all

simply impressiv. thank you, I am happy.

Lying in bed due to influenca I thank you. Health is coming back more rapidly!!!

Peter

Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you. ~ K. R. Popper

"A frequent source of misunderstanding is that we assume (wrongly) in others knowledge of the facts that we know ourselves".

This experience applies to "professional life" and certainly also to "personal life" :-))

Dear Dr. Peter,

Thanks for the invitation,

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."

"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."

"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Regard

KS AlNiaeem

From language point of view, misunderstanding can be defined as, ‘‘the difference between an intended message by a speaker and how the listener perceived that message’’. Some factors that can bring about misunderstanding include: the use of homophonic words in communicative event; use of sentences which have implicatures; constructing sentences which can be interpreted at both the deep and surface structure levels of grammar analyses. Prejudice and preconceived ideas can also affect the way messages are perceived and interpreted and for that matter bring about misunderstanding.

Misunderstanding is ----failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.

“The biggest problem for humanity, not only on a global level, but even for individuals, is misunderstanding.”

~Rinpoche

Tips to Repair the Damage From a Misunderstanding:

Here’s what I remind myself before approaching someone about “the stuff that’s in the middle of the room.”

1. The Goal = Harmony + Productive Communication

I’m not looking to “win” or be proven right. It’s more important that I gain a new understanding; that I express that I’m seeking the harmony that once existed, and get back to productive communication.

2. I’m Missing Something

Time and again, when I’ve had a misunderstanding with someone, it’s based in the fact that their perspective is different than mine. So I’ve learned to look hard to discover, and then consider, their perspective—which I do via the next steps.

3. Value Their Strengths and Motivations

What does this person bring to the table? How do they contribute to the world? What are they responsible for and how does that affect their perspective? I remind myself of their talents, skills, and value to help me focus on them instead of me.

4. Determine How They Judge Others

When seeking their perspective, I look at how they judge others in hopes of understanding them better. Some people make judgments based on a person’s people skills. Or their problem-solving talents. Or how well a person can persuade and influence others. How they judge is a key to how they see the world.

5. Consider Their Fears

We all have fears, even if we don’t consciously realize what they are. Some folks fear not getting work done on time. Others fear criticism. Or they are afraid they’ll be taken advantage of. Considering their fears can provide insight into the misunderstanding.

http://tinybuddha.com/blog/5-tips-to-repair-the-damage-from-a-misunderstanding/

Misunderstanding is understanding in a different  manner  which  is not expected  and making  him  think  in different directions  .mis understanding take S one into sorry  state which is deeply regreted and give  scope   for  different  meanings.

Perception is also clouded by the perceiver’s own experiences, emotions, and biases, which also contributes to misunderstandings between people ,Because the perceived assume they are transparent, they might not spend the time or effort to be as clear and forthcoming about their intentions or emotional states as they could be, giving the perceiver very little information with which to make an accurate judgment. Most people suffer from what psychologists call “the transparency illusion”—the belief that what they feel, desire, and intend is crystal clear to others; even though they have done very little to communicate clearly what is going on inside their minds. There are several types of misunderstanding, mostly fall into the broad categories of relationships of families &friends, religious ,social, international, scientific, philosophical etc. There is no harm in appreciating your opponents. The person you misunderstood can be your best friend or any close one, due to a misunderstanding about a silly issue he /she can’t be left alone. All the doubts and misunderstanding in any relationships only can weaken our power of growth in any aspect of life.

Illusion that communication has taken place could lead to misunderstanding; but to me self image and identity are bigger monsters that can even devour logic based science, let alone the social world and relationships built in it.

Dear Peter,

Yesterday I had a lecture in a national conference on a basic and troublesome mistake which may be a misunderstanding as well. This is how some Hungarian academics/researcher - agricultural entomologists - determined themselves as “agrozoologists”. The full paper/lecture have not been downloaded to my contributions but here you can read the English summary:

Little crop protection etymology: agrozoology? agrozoologist?

The paper tries to interpret the formal and semantic meaning of the term “agrozoology”. As to the basic meaning of this word, it expresses all relationships with animals in agriculture. Thus, animal husbandry, veterinary activity, as well as agricultural entomology belong to this term. However, it is used in some Hungarian academic circles as agricultural entomology. Anyway, “agrozoology” is an unnecessary term because there is a wholly accepted and accurate Hungarian term: növényvédelmi állattan = agricultural entomology. Where are the limits of the creation of new words? What kinds of semantic, historic criteria and demands can determine the building and development of the vocabulary and terminology? Whether there is recognized institutional control on the introduction and use of new words and terms? May have sloppy, inconsistent word creation any impact on the use and expression mode of a language?

Computer search can help to easily and certainly find, evaluate the acceptance and real connotation of a questioned lexical unit or its equivalent semantic forms. Computational linguistic offers opportunity for investigation of events in the past. One of its options is the Google Books Ngram Viewer, an online search engine that charts frequencies of any set of comma-delimited search strings using a yearly count of n-grams found in sources printed between 1800 and 2000.  In computational linguistics, an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given sequence of text or speech. The studied expressions were: “agrozoology”, zoology, entomology, applied zoology, applied entomology, agricultural entomology and their German and French equivalents. The frequency of these words can characterise their existence and acceptance in the investigated period.  The Google search proved that the „agrozoology” occurred – except Hungary – only in Belgium (there in the name of a mere institute). As to the ngram search, the lexical items “agrozoology”, “Agrozoologie”, “agrozoologie” are not existing pseudo units. All the other searched word forms corresponded in meaning and historical environment to the Hungarian agricultural entomology meaning. The „agrozoology” term is a careless linguistic phenomenon of which use may decrease the understanding and may hamper the abstract and logical thinking in the long term. 

  Dear Peter,

The determination of Nietzsche - "The text has disappeared under the interpretation." – is relevant, fine pointing and witty. However, I think most misunderstandings in science are products of carelessness and ignorance even in our precise scientific world. Please, look with a bit more critical view at answers in many RG threads. They are full with borrowed (cut and inserted) parts many of them mistakenly interpreted. I think the approach as Nietzsche put it cannot be the typical scientific misunderstanding.  

Dear Marcel,

What about “slowly” written misunderstandings?

Dear Peter:

I view misunderstanding as a communication failure that can be produced by several causes.

The "sender" of the message could have selected the wrong words or symbols. Or perhaps the message is adequate, but the receiver interprets it in a wrong way. Or perhaps time passed, the context changed, and this changes the meaning of the original message. There are many other possibilities.

The lesson is that we should carefully produce a message, taking into account a variety of potential audiences and the fact that it could be received in different contexts. Communication is a complex science.

Life can be a misunderstanding, if we are ignorant of the right language or don’t try to learn it. « If lions could speak, we would not understand them. » says Ludwig Wittgenstein. If we make an effort, however, we could manage to understand. ( “ Life was a misunderstanding » ) ~ E. Pevernagie

Thus with most careful devotion

Thus with precise attention

To detail, interfering preparation

Of that which is already prepared

Men tighten the knot of confusion

Into perfect misunderstanding. ~ T.S. Eliot

Misunderstanding may be if we can't understand the negative intentions, motives or aims of other person's communication. Is it aroused by revenge, jealousy, hatred, complex of inferiority, inflated sense of self or hunt witch? Sometimes it can be a lack of knowledge of the cultural peculiarities or realities of one or another place, or ambiguous play on words, lack of clarity, the wish to demonstrate their superiority, being anonymous. I think, the Internet is a good tool for the people, who are afraid of honesty, open attitude and normal relations. They try like RG downvoters to hurt one or another human being without explanations.

As a scientist, author and reviewer since 1988, I can with some certainty say that the misunderstanding of topics, definitions, and scientific results is growing.

I feel that there is an increased rush to produce - to reach the finish line - before the work in fact is *done*, *completed*, before it is thoroughly checked for correctness, and for novelty and clarity, by reading a lot of related literature - old and new. While it *is* hard to check - and hard to never really be able to know that all sources have been checked - this step is sadly glossed over far too often, far too much, by far too many.

Too many do no longer *care* that the work is as easy to read as you can make it; too few actually take time to explain, motivate, illustrate, and compare. It is frustrating when trying to grasp a paper when a development is glossed over quickly - without the necessary detail to make the work reproducible - as scientific honesty actually demands of all of us. 

I think that "misundestanding"  of research results is that we are not using the appropriate language to communicate results to the target  communities. I think that  the Science Community needs to speak at least 5 languages:

1. The language of scientists that is disseminated  in the Journals.

2. The language of the technical world , that has to professionally apply the results.

3. The language of users, the ones  whi have a farm, a business, 

4. The language of decision makers  that nedd a couple of sentences clearly written and with a straigh forward message , and finally

5. The languaje of the media ( Press, TV, Radio, Social Networks)

But is not fair to demand fresearchers to  communicate in all the five langages, then research institutions have to have within their  specialized units a "Communications Unit " that is able to translate and  make the interpretation in languages 2 to 5.

Best regrads

Understanding depends on willingness and ability. However, those who are willing may not have the ability to understand and those with the ability may not be willing. Moreover, someone may have all the willingness in the world and the ability but only if they can figure it out before death. As a math teacher, most of the misunderstanding I see in students is the unwillingness to spend the necessary time thinking and/or unwillingness to question. The problem is that the amount of time each of us needs to understand varies and we all need to do a better job understanding that.

Don’t pass my voice, what I said about! If you want to-pack the expression, the context and even the body language with it. Misunderstandings are like by-product of mishandling the whole transportation of what was said. ~ P. Chenna

Many time misunderstanding due to our biasedness and we want hear what please to us. If you are good listener then there is no confusion. Sometime, the speaker also can not communicate the way he wishes to out of fear and create mis-understanding.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way. ~ L. Wittgenstein

Communication gap in Understanding is misunderstanding 

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place”

                                                                                   ― George Bernard Shaw

Misunderstanding is the prime result of difference of 1-Point of view due to persons vision in own scenario and 2- Communication gap a) that the question or request or statement is not properly understood b) the target person is actually a non-target/non-concern/irrelevant and c) level of understanding is not matching.

But people do. They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren't the same one. ~ E. Hemingway

the brains of individualls are different and each is full of defects. How should it be possible to link them by communication without troubles, called misunderstanding?

Thal is the reason why we are not able to reproduce by 0 and 1 all these defects!

I am glad, thats our advantage. So misunderstanding is a uge chance!

Symbolically the picture in my question shows it. We can not find a common basis. Depending on wavelength more or less.

Peter

Dear All,

I am entomologist. In entomology and in the world of living beings taxonomy plays an indispensable role.  One of the aspects of taxonomy is the naming of organisms. The proper naming is often a difficult issue. It has occurred that not appropriate even illogical or not understandable national – common – names were chosen. A recent example is the Hungarian name of Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Its American name is Asian multi-coloured ladybird beetle but the English one is Harlequin ladybird beetle. Both is right because both have a meaning characteristic for the species. A Hungarian zoologist followed the English common name and termed this species as “harlekin katicabogar”. The trouble is that the world harlekin = Harlequin has no relevant Hungarian meaning, thus Hungarians use an unintelligible Hungarian common name, which is but a black spot in their mind. Some years ago I wrote some papers even delivered several lectures on this issue but in vain. The incomprehensible name of H. axyridis still has been living.   

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/243464748_Szemantikai_es_etimologiai_nehezsegek_a_Harmonia_axyridis_Pallas_1773_katicabogar_magyar_elnevezeseben_Semantic_and_etymologic_troubles_in_the_Hungarian_naming_of_Harmonia_axyridis_Pallas_1773

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236979481_Mi_koze_van_a_Harmonia_axyridis_katicabogarnak_az_Isteni_szinjatekhoz_What_has_Harmonia_axyridis_coccinellid_to_do_with_Dante%27s_Divine_Comedy

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dear András,

Thank you for your time you invested and the very nice example!!!

Best regards Peter

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood."

                                                                                ----  Lionel Trilling