There's individual persons modelling exponential change just fine, and then there's what happens when you apply to the populace at large.

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."

> when you apply to the populace at large

What does this mean? What do you apply to populace at large? Do you mean a populace doesn’t model the exponential change right?

Yep that's what I meant! Context clues did you well here.

“A populace modeling exponential change”. Yeah, that’s just word salad.

We can agree to disagree. After all, even you were able to figure out what I meant :-)

disagree on what? You have not put forward a coherent statement. I had to fix your sentence. ;)

Since I can’t reply under you answer for some reason I put it here.

We can have a constructive discussion instead. My problem was not actually parsing what you said. I’m questioning the assumption if populace collectively modeling exponential change is really meaningful. You can, for example, describe how does it look like when populace can model change exponentially. Is there any relevant literature on this subject that I can look into? Does this phenomenon have a name?

I understand that complex sentences can sometimes be difficult to parse for median Americans or non-native speakers, but we disagree on whether what I said was word salad prior to you rewording it by explicitly enumerating the implied indirect object. As you demonstrated, context clues were ample to determine meaning.