[AmericanChopper]

> You do occasionally get the real experts, but more often then not, you just get another mediocre human like myself that just voiced their opinion

Most of the comments experts make are just stating their own opinions as well. Take any credible expert in any field and you'll find equally credible experts who completely disagree with them. When experts are communicating with non-experts they're often really bad at explaining which points are just their opinions versus more widely accepted facts, and just as bad as explaining what other equally credible expert perspectives exist on a topic other than their own. They also tend to be pretty bad at explaining where the limits of knowledge in their field are as well.

I would suggest that the ego boost of being a highly regarded expert also tends to make these shortcomings worse with a lot of people, that increasing credibility and reputation can have the effect of increasing dogmatic-ness. Of the topics that I'm somewhat well informed about, I know very few "experts" who are good at explaining the perspectives of their field in a reasonably balanced way, I think Roger Penrose is quite good at doing this, but even he's not perfect and experts with his level of humility are not very common.

[noduerme]

Sure. I mean, ask most coders what the best programming language or web framework is for a certain job, and they'll tell you it's whichever one they use. It's partly confirmation bias from their workplace, and partly "when all you have is a hammer..."