The definition of bikeshedding is nitpicking unimportant details because the important details are difficult to figure out, discuss, or acknowledge. It doesn't

The definition of bikeshedding is nitpicking unimportant details because the important details are difficult to figure out, discuss, or acknowledge. It doesn't specifically point out "ignorance" as the sole reason why bikeshedding occurs: "The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson's Law of Triviality. Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bikeshed, while neglecting the design of the power plant itself, which is far more important but also far more difficult to criticize constructively." Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding A form of "one-man-bikeshedding" is when you keep postponing important work, by constantly checking email, cleaning the house, or doing other unimportant busywork. You are not ignorant about what is important. But you procrastinate as it's much more difficult and painful to face it. The same dynamic is present also in groups, where groups naturally tend towards endlessly debating nonsense, as it's easy-to-do busywork.