Foid complains her family doesn't think her two masters degrees in english are as good as her brother who got his physics PhD from Cambridge

The foid is wrong but

There's a thing that happens with people who have fairly average intelligence when they encounter someone who "sounds" smart, a sort of instinctive thing where they assume the smart person is not talking absolute bollocks because they're using big words and terms they don't understand and they seem self-assured.

this is so true, I even had freshman classmates 3 weeks into univerity that started talking about "how this must be statistically significant" or "yeah but that would have a pretty low p value" in everyday conversation thinking they sound smart/cool. Maybe this wowed their still highschool girlfriend, but please shut the frick up.