I totally agree with the self-fulfilling prophecy aspect, with the belief and confidence that you can accomplish anything if you try hard enough and they are all good aspects of the egg balancing , but the error in logic about the relative densities still persists and it doesn't look like it's ever going to get corrected. I first heard it about about 10 years ago and wondered how people could accept that yolk sinking thing. I waited for corrections to come from such usually valid sources as National Geographic for Kids, Weekly Reader...but they never did. I just picked up the fight again...Mythbusters mentions it several times while balancing the eggs....and hope that the lesson of thinking for yourself gets out there. This whole misconception and mythbusting drive is not to prove who knows more about minute details than whom, but to....I hope...encourage our youth...and our adults...to use their brains and not accept what they are told by whatever authority. Otherwise, we are doomed to a society of mediocrity......