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Never thought about that, but it sounds on the money and will be the theory I extol going forward as though I came up with it.
I think the theory put forward by @itsbruce about Dunning-Kruger is probably also relevant. I hung out with some properly intelligent people through uni and there is a strange effect whereby being in that intellectually rarefied environment does give people (over-) confidence that whatever comes out of their mouth on any topic is correct just because. I remember having some pretty wanky discussions where we were certain that we'd thrashed out some deep topic to a real conclusion (and, to be fair, probably did more with the available information than many people would be able to) but ignored the value of real practical experience and all the stuff that we didn't know we didn't know. Generally I was hanging out with engineers and scientists who were quite practical and so who had no problem tying their shoelaces, but I can definitely see that the same environment but in a very abstract, theoretical field could leave you completely missing important life skills.
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Never thought about that, but it sounds on the money and will be the theory I extol going forward as though I came up with it.