You see it a lot in movies, and that belief from movies gets in the popular conscience. Plate armor in most movies gets penetrated by light slashes and masses o

You see it a lot in movies, and that belief from movies gets in the popular conscience. Plate armor in most movies gets penetrated by light slashes and masses of plate wearing soldiers are easily beaten by the lightly armored hero. My friend who often wore armor on subways always had drunk people come up to him and try to play pranks like pushing him etc thinking he would fall due to impractical armor etc, but armor makes it easier to stand your ground. So it is like physics, there is widespread belief in Aristotelean physics but you wont see anyone talk about believing it online, even though we know from surveys that there is a significant fraction who do.