Can anyone comment on Dutch attitudes in this respect? The Dutch I have worked with could come across as very confident - even when very obviously wrong. I’ve f

Can anyone comment on Dutch attitudes in this respect? The Dutch I have worked with could come across as very confident - even when very obviously wrong. I’ve found it a little confusing: they sound like they’re right, but what they’re saying is incorrect! In Anglo culture people tend to be a little more circumspect when there is the potential to be wrong. I had a Dutch boss, who once said, “you never put forward something as your opinion, you always state a secondary source. Why?”. I said it was to give credence to what I was saying, because I myself am only one data source. His answer was, “oh, that is very honest”. I never really understood that.