Well, only in very specific circumstances: the circumstances in which it is more important to know the knee-jerk opinions of others instead of the opinions that

Well, only in very specific circumstances: the circumstances in which it is more important to know the knee-jerk opinions of others instead of the opinions that will be selected over time because of non-change/survival due to pragmatic usefulness. Consider that, for > 99% of the questions for which you might get an opinion out of people, the answers you receive will have never been actually applied in their lives - so, the answers you'll likely receive have never been empirically subjected to any real world test. The opinions that haven't been tested have a lower signal-to-noise ratio than those that have