I left your comment unmolested, but I'd guess because of the aphorism? There's something fundamentally lazy about appealing to them... :P I didn't bother to c

I left your comment unmolested, but I'd guess because of the aphorism? There's something fundamentally lazy about appealing to them... :P I didn't bother to cite it before, but there's a pretty well known study in this area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect