Ed has three engineering degrees. he has hired an interior decorator to update his home. he is tremendously frustrated when he asks what he thinks are simple questions about weight-bearing walls and insulation requirements, and the designer is unable to understand. yet ed has the same problems when the designer starts talking about mauve, cerise, and magenta. why is the communication process not working in this instance?

The sender and receiver do not share overlapping frames of reference.

Explanation:

Communication is a two-way process. It requires a sender and a receiver. Also, both the sender and the receiver are required to possess certain things in common to help in the free flow of communication. Some of the common aspects include language, topic, and references. In the absence of these aspects, the communication fails. In the given situation, the same happens when Ed and the interior decorator. Both of them converse with each other about different topics. As a result, the information does not reach them in the way it should be.

i r r e l e v a n t

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.