Magazine writers are Journalism and English majors. They are one paycheck away from "would you like fries with that?" The relentless drumbeat of deadlines makes them desperate to fill their little part of the magazine with anything that sounds good, or it's fry grease for them. After a while they begin to believe their swollen ego. It's not just computer mags, look at all the hopelessly simplified (or wrong) psychological advice given in women's magazines.