When people are "confused" and blame someone else....

[DaveJ]

How come when some people say they are confused, they realize they lack all the facts and then proceed to educate themselves on the matter. But, when others say they are confused, they blame the person presenting them with the information.

Let me expound a bit: If a heart surgeon explains how heart surgery is done, and I say I'm confused, it's not the surgeon's fault. I obviously am uneducated on the topic. The heart surgeon has done nothing wrong.

If an engineer provides mathematical evidence that a bridge is going to collapse, and then people say they are confused, that would be their problem and they ought to educate themselves.

I'm asking in this forum because I think the technique is used by popular social butterfly types in order to isolate the other person providing the information and put them on the spot. It's sort of, what you might say, jocks would do to nerds.