> If they were capable of understanding the extended details, they would already have an academic background in the subject. Laymen aren't going to have a clue

> If they were capable of understanding the extended details, they would already have an academic background in the subject. Laymen aren't going to have a clue what MoE means even if they went to the trouble of digging up the paper. This is, hopefully, an accidental thought experiment gone awry. "IF THEY WERE CAPABLE of understanding the extended details, they would already have an academic background in the subject" can and should == "I spent a ton of time in the library", and an follow-up apology for putting "capable" and "academic background" in the same sentence. The whole friggin' point of this glorified LAN is that we can break down those dumb walled gardens and let kids learn from random BBS textfiles, MIT YT videos and the gathered wisdom of HN. If you are going to just dismiss auto-didacts, you're going to have to re-write the complete higher education History in Western society. I won't even begin to try and validate how wrong this is for Eastern History as well.