Int'l Herald Tribune: Is It Real Or Not

TW: Great story on how we are all susceptible to deception

From IHT:
" 'It is impossible to mislead people who have knowledge'...Few statements could do more to gladden a con man's heart. In the art of the con, magicians and swindlers and forgers insist, the ideal victim is not an ignoramus but an expert. Any magician would rather take on a roomful of physicists than of 5-year-olds. 'When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.'

Experts make the best victims because they jump to unwarranted conclusions. The savvier they are, the quicker they jump, because they see at a glance which way a story is heading...Expectations are everything...Subjects hugely overestimated their own knowledge. Some not only gave wrong answers, but also put the odds that they were wrong at one in 10,000 or even one in a million. In areas where the respondents were more knowledgeable, they were more accurate but even more overconfident."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/02/opinion/edolnick.php