For me it’s time signatures in music. I grew up playing instruments, played in several orchestras, etc. But no matter how many times someone tries to explain time signatures to me, it makes no sense. I don’t understand why people place such importance on it. To me, notes have a pitch and a duration, maybe some dynamics. That’s it. I don’t understand why people try to needlessly complicate it. It doesn’t give you anything.
My wife will hear a song and go “Oh neat, it’s in 5/8.” And I’m like “How tf do you know that, and why does it matter?”
Those people that seem to do that, how many are they? How many are there that don’t/can’t do that? Or more specially, what is the share of people that have such a busy live? Do you perhaps simply only see those outliers and all the normal/average people are not like that but you simply don’t see it?
I do wonder if theres some sort of presentation bias or something. Ive only seen 2 homes that are worse than mine in my whole life, but I’m not sure people with unkept houses are big on having visitors.