At the risk of being censured for a "shallow dismissal", I read here a very long-winded and partial call to prioritise within a technical field the suggestions

At the risk of being censured for a "shallow dismissal", I read here a very long-winded and partial call to prioritise within a technical field the suggestions of graduates of "the university of life" over those with technical expertise ("book learning"). What it implies - as these things often do - is that those with a rationalist approach leapt somehow fully-formed into adult life without experiencing anything negative that might have helped build character and "wisdom". Ironically, the studies it draws on that reveal bias are not "afro-feminist" folk-wisdom but people doing actual academic research. That work in some cases may well be motivated by the researchers being from particular backgrounds - e.g. marginalised communities - and will clearly be informed by the lived experience of people from diverse backgrounds, but surely in a respectable field its worth will always be measured in what it brings to the discussion that is actually new and verifiable, not what moral-authority-by-demographic-disadvantage the researcher claims?