You'd think, but a lot of people blindly follow tutorials that Google gives them.

As an example, here's my #2 result for, "Linux command line create bootable usb drive from iso":

https://www.tecmint.com/create-an-iso-from-a-bootable-usb-in...

It instructs you to run this command, despite explaining what "if" and "of" mean in the following paragraph:

>sudo dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/home/tecmint/Documents/Linux_Mint_19_XFCE.iso

Proofreading is harder and less profitable than SEO.

Actually that command seems accurate, because the instructions is to do the reverse of what you googled - it's telling people "how to make an image from a disk device", but in this case the image file has the ".iso" file extension.

But I agree about "copy paste instructions". I remember an intern at work asking me how to switch between virtual terminals on Linux, I told her Ctrl-Alt-Fx, I wanted to explain what virtual terminals are and how the shortcuts are probably configurable, but at that point she already stopped listening...

In my case, it was simpler. Just mixing up, mentally, which disk device was the source, which was the dest.