One person's definition of acoustic competence does not a quiet room make.
What really amazed me though was the crowd that gathered around us to talk about how neat the car was and that it looked like "you just need to put a battery in it and it'll take right off." These were church members standing on church ground, so I knew they weren't lying; or they didn't think they were. These people wanted so badly to believe that they could raise a lot of money selling this car that their minds refused to perceive what was really there. The human mind is a strange thing.