I was skimming through the tweets about Taleb when I saw one from one of his former [friends][1] which was about Taleb's "skin of the game" saying that it is neither necessary nor sufficient for "good judgment".

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> I refute him thus. Skin-in-the-game is not a sufficient condition for good judgment (e.g., military blunders, with real skin at stake). Nor is it a necessary condition (Kahneman’s brilliant research done inside IYI club). Skin-in-the-game is a facilitative condition: it helps
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I was wondering if having skin in the game may be harmful to judgement in certain circumstances where a person having skin in the game(or too much of it) may be more likely to form inaccurate ideas about something than looking at the same thing from a rather detached position, an ivory tower so to speak.
[1]: <https://twitter.com/PTetlock/status/953741253409165312>