There really are no bounds to the credulity and ignorance of the average layman.

After all, she could be assumed to be better informed than the average layman.

Five other precepts, which need not here be enumerated, should be observed by those who would attain more quickly than the average layman the release from misery and rebirth.

Bronsky had been remarkably adept at keeping the medical jargon on a level reachable by the average layman, and he slowed a notch to explain what happens to the bronchial tubes when smoke is inhaled.

He had no more than the average intelligent layman's knowledge of nuclear physics-enough to recharge or repair a conversion-unit-but the drawings looked authentic enough.

As such, technicians are generally much better versed in technique compared to average layman and even general professionals in that field of technology.

Some of the pools look so natural "the average layman can't tell the difference," said David Rowean, president of Yankee Aquatech, a pool company in Francestown, N.H.

I talked to doctors and nurses every day, so I knew the names and symptoms of more and worse diseases than the average layman.

Of course I don't know any more about this sort of thing than the average layman, but it seems to me there were a good many gaps in the evidence.

My knowledge of espers and esper powers was only that of the average well-read layman, garnered from Volk's tapes.