text: A person never knows how smart the person they're asking for an opinion is. For all they know the person they are asking might not even be as smart as the person asking. But chances are that if the person asking got a good and reliable answer, the person they asked is smarter than the person asking. This, of course, is not always the case for all circumstances where a person needs multiple opinions. It would make sense to believe that the smarter person would have a more reliable opinion in the subject.