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This is also generally true for software engineers.
In my own experience, the difficulty is that you basically have to teach someone software engineering before they even kind of understand what youre saying before they believe you.
Which is basically 99% of people, especially in a work setting.
The very rare 1% of people will usually give up and go, well, youre the expert, probably you know what youre talking about.
The rest will be angered by their own dunning-krueger effect and/or ego and be abusive.
EDIT: This is 100% true when talking to a video game player, unless they are somehow also a programmer.
There are 0 exceptions to the category of someone who has only played video games. None of them anything about programming, and they will be more angry and rude than the general public.
If you can't explain a concept to a five year old, then you're not an expert on that concept.