I can't explain why I know things that other people don't, don't care about, and simply have no interest in learning anything about.
Most people have been through an education system that has trained them to cease thinking for themselves. That is whole point of school. Don't get me started on cheating statistics.
Classical Conditioning. Psychology one oh one.
High school drop outs, and artists, including writers and filmmakers, entreprenuers and other self starters are probably more prone to entertain, investigate or see the truths and the potential wrongs in the theories.
Chunks, simply deny. They don't know how to do anything else.