Enlarging on one facet of Kobayashi’s append: In a hierarchical organization, those with high status in the sense of high formal rank “face more demands on their time/attention” and may simply not have the cpu cycles needed to adequately evaluate a complex issue. Spread someone thin enough across enough disparate issues and, even if they have adequate information, they may lack adequate thinking time on any given one of the issues.
My perceptions of high-status stupidity arose from responses that were erroneous, not refusals to comment.
Enlarging on one facet of Kobayashi’s append: In a hierarchical organization, those with high status in the sense of high formal rank “face more demands on their time/attention” and may simply not have the cpu cycles needed to adequately evaluate a complex issue. Spread someone thin enough across enough disparate issues and, even if they have adequate information, they may lack adequate thinking time on any given one of the issues.