I’m going to ignore the whole socially-agreeable aspect.

Take a thousand subjects. I’m going to be wrong about 990 of them. Because I know just enough about it to think I might have a clue.

You could probably read up on something for five hours and have a better opinion on it than most people that you meet.

How many things are just passively received opinion? And what kind of signal is that? Oh no, all the Jacks and Jones disagree with me.

On the other hand there are some cases where you can go down some dark rabbit hole and gain false knowledge and education. Maybe studying political science or something.