>Alternatively, people who are knowledgeable of a subject will have selfishly biased opinions about it, which they value more than unknowledgeable people will value an arbitrary stance on the subject. From experience, this seems to affect things beyond situations of chance like lotteries, and infests collaborations like businesses in ways such as Not Invented Here Syndrome or generally poor management choices that fail to consider situational factors (e.g. overarching decrees that are ineffective in certain situations/locations/applications).

And the ignorant are always the loudest.

The fresh minted safety guy with his shiny new clipboard and vest is a fool running around the plant spewing rabid idiocy straight out of the internet comment section about how everything is non-optimal.

His boss who's been doing things for a decade is more measured, knows you can't tell a guy how to use a screwdriver if you also want to tell him how to use a ladder.