The person or small group with ultimate operational responsibility for shareholder value creation, typically the CEO or President, must legitimately desire reliable analytical knowledge of the business.
All of this depends on having secure and reliable access to a trusted source of knowledge against which one may compare the facts presented by the claimant.
If the privileged window hypothesis is correct, feelings are reliable precisely because they are tuning us into the cumulative knowledge necessary to make good decisions.
It also says the EBC, with its planned focus on depth of knowledge and longer essays, will not be a reliable indicator for league tables, because of the subjectivity involved in marking such exams.