Some people just don’t like to admit they’ve been fooled.
There are threads in the SDMB that I sometimes go back to and read for fun. This thread is one of them.
The fun starts on post 39, in which a long time member recalls a magic trick he observed at a party. Several people that know their stuff try to tell him how the trick was performed, even going as far to associate a particular word used in the trick with a prop (a book) that is commonly used in magic acts. And the person that posted about the trick consistently refuses to believe them……because he doesn’t think he would fall for the misdirections he fell for, I guess. It was very amusing.