When a subset of "the common people" get one right, entirely by luck...

So persuasive.

Scott's the all-time MASTER. See, fellow common people, when he begins sentences this way, it doesn't come off to "common people"—meaning us, the readers he's desperately trying to attract and enlist to share his content—as elitist, snobbish, supercilious, or condescending.

It's persuasion. He's persuading you that you're stupid. (Are you too stupid to recognize that? Then you're stupid twice! See? :)

Clearly, talking down to his audience this way and literally calling us stupid doesn't DIVIDE us, the common folk, from him, the self-proclaimed Greatest Predictor in the World. He's not revealing that he's acutely insecure, which he masks with self-importance, self-aggrandizement, and narcissism. Not at all. No one should feel insult, resentment, or anything but admiration and adulation, and abundant gratitude for having been allowed to bask in the radiant glow of his awesomeness.