> I can assure you the average person is not much dumber than the average American. If you have two scales and used them to weight the difference in mass of tw

> I can assure you the average person is not much dumber than the average American. If you have two scales and used them to weight the difference in mass of two objects, and one says there is a difference and the other doesn’t, you cannot just conclude that there must not be any difference. Obviously one scale is wrong. So in this case we have to ask which scale is wrong, the collective results of hundreds of well documented scientifically conducted studies or your “gut feeling”.