people don't like admitting that they don't know something. Especially that they don't know something when they're supposed to be very knowledgeable about it.

people don't like admitting that they don't know something. Especially that they don't know something when they're supposed to be very knowledgeable about it. But come on! They could have rejected it as "incomprehensible" or "needing to explain what it was talking about better" or "not staying on one topic". The abstract started talking about the Internet and OOP and ended up talking about digital-to-analog converters and e-commerce. Just because you're smart and you can't understand it doesn't mean that it's smarter.