&gt;the experiments straight-forwardly demonstrates that a lot of their expertise is bullshit.\n\nThat's exactly what the article is suggesting. It just explained the mechanism behind their false sense of expertise, rather than making a vague judgement of their ineptitude.\n\nWe encounter this phenomenon in almost every aspect of life: seemingly unrelated details change the way we perceive everything from art to sex to food. We humans are at the mercy of strange causality.