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The presumption that experts know more about their subject than laymen is eminently reasonable.

Trust the Experts: A Reasonable, Defeasible Presumption, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Let me say this in laymen's terms so John McCain can understand his mistake, CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

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The solution has become saturated, in laymen terms, there is no more room for the salt to dissolve.

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The solution has become saturated, in laymen terms, there is no more room for the salt to dissolve.

Supersaturated Solution Crystallizing 2007

And if the problem for the laymen is to know how to choose, the problem for the expert adviser is not only, and not first, to find the way of escape; it is first to enable those for whom the way of escape is designed, and who are travelling in other directions, to see that it is indeed the right road.

Sir Norman Angell - Nobel Lecture 1933

Sez I, in fearful dry axents, almost husky ones, "It seems to take quite a knack to know jest when the word laymen means men and when it means wimmen."

Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881

Sez I, in fearful dry axents, almost husky ones, "It seems to take quite a knack to know jest when the word laymen means men and when it means wimmen."

Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 5 Marietta Holley 1881

"Oh, yes," sez Josiah in a reasonin 'tone, "the word laymen always means wimmen when it is used in a punishin' and condemnatory sense, or in the case of work and so fourth, but when it comes to settin 'up in high places, or drawin' sallerys, or anything else difficult, it alweys means men. "

Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 5 Marietta Holley 1881

"Oh, yes," sez Josiah in a reasonin 'tone, "the word laymen always means wimmen when it is used in a punishin' and condemnatory sense, or in the case of work and so fourth, but when it comes to settin 'up in high places, or drawin' sallerys, or anything else difficult, it alweys means men. "

Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881

I was wondering about the changes in laymen’s terms and this helps put things in perspective.

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