"Keltham,, advisory, the new candidates have spent their entire previous educational lives in unimaginably-to-you awful Golarian schools, where asking stupid questions means that you lose face in front of the other students and the teacher rebukes you.  Right now, most of them are staying quiet and not asking any questions.  This is not the good sign that it would be in dath ilan.  Here, it means that they have made a completely reasonable decision to let other candidates ask stupid questions first, and see whether we - the current researchers - were being honest with them about whether that's safe here."

"I'm not quite sure whether they're internally wondering 'What's wrong with just testing a lot of people and reporting whether all-14s get it five times as often?' or more like 'Why would anybody do this sort of experiment in the first place?' or maybe 'But what's an "experiment" actually?' because the Baseline word translated in my head but not in theirs, but..."

"Keltham, advisory, the new candidates have spent their entire previous educational lives in unimaginably-to-you awful Golarian schools designed by Intelligence 14 teachers for Intelligence 10 students, where asking stupid questions means that you lose face in front of the other students and the teacher rebukes you.  Right now, most of them are staying quiet and not asking any questions.  This is not the good sign that it would be in dath ilan.  Here, it means that they have made a completely reasonable decision to let other candidates ask stupid questions first, and see whether we - the current researchers - were being honest with them about whether that's safe here."

"I'm not quite sure whether they're internally wondering 'What's wrong with just testing a lot of people and reporting whether all-14s get it five times as often?' or more like 'Why would anybody do this sort of experiment in the first place?' or maybe 'But what's an "experiment" actually?' because the Baseline word translated in my head but not in theirs, but..."

"Keltham, advisory, the new candidates have spent their previous educational lives in unimaginably-to-you-awful Golarian schools designed by Intelligence 14 teachers for Intelligence 10 students, where asking stupid questions means that you lose face in front of the other students and the teacher rebukes you.  Right now, most of them are staying quiet and not asking any questions.  This is not the good sign that it would be in dath ilan.  Here, it means that they have made a completely reasonable decision to let other candidates ask stupid questions first, and see whether we - the current researchers - were being honest with them about whether that's safe here."

"I'm not quite sure whether they're internally wondering 'What's wrong with just testing a lot of people and reporting whether all-14s get it five times as often?' or more like 'Why would anybody do this sort of experiment in the first place?' or maybe 'But what's an "experiment" actually?' because the Baseline word translated in my head but not in theirs, but..."