Have you noticed that the people that overestimate their own intelligence in a subject often implicitly reveal, to the more informed, that their brand of pseudoscience is because they're missing the required level of humility?
That's why they don't ask more informed questions (lazy learners). They actually believe they're right most of the time (but, on social media, these folk rarely if ever reference scientific publications to back up their rhetoric - because they have not read the scientific publications. They read, at best, science journalism websites).
This online social behavior is actually the norm (average) within the context of laypeople's responses to posts where the scientific subjects of ecology (inc. Climate science) are the relevant context.
They really do believe, or at least promote (like a sales pitch) that buying stuff (products) is the main solution to mitigate #climate change. Basically, because that is what they have been indoctrinated and want to believe in (nurtured).
Wanting to believe in something is the predictable way to most probably be incorrect. Denial followed by conformation bias is one of the most predictable forms of human responses (because humans are animals. And all animal's behavior has predictable patterns)
This is due to their unknown unknowns. A person's intelligence is generally related to experience For example, a person that has studied the scientific literature on #psychology has far more experience in that subject than a layperson (but an arrogant layperson can't handle that fact. Hence the self-denial).
You would not be surprised to hear how laypeople feign their level of knowledge of #science. They are fundamentally only fooling themselves.
Feigning intelligence on social media is relatively easier. Feigning knowledge is due to social status-seeking behaviors. The layperson (with a tone of arrogance. I.e., personality) feels like (emphasis on the emotional heuristic) they're being clever by generally making the narrative up as they go along, reading a little bit on the fly, for example, Wiki pages or social media forums, & very often really believing that the reason why they don't personally agree with the scientist is that the scientist is "stupid" (to use the layperson's words).
The Dunning-Kruger effect is real!
Imagining, after reading this, some arrogant laypeople will quickly read up the term on Wiki & self-proclaim themselves an expert. Arrogance (low humility) is a learning disability.
