I do agree that it's probable that amateurs are just bad at evaluation. It's not really something we practice, and then a move that just looks amazing is hard to resist. The habit of telling your intuition "hold on a sec" is a hard one to train. Also, most people have only so much decision making capacity in their brain before fatigue sets in. My guess is that expert players don't really need to calculate most position, so they are fresh when they reach a difficult position. Amateurs on the other hand are working hard on every move after their opening knowledge is spent. They'll probably have much more resistance to thinking through a move for how it fails... but I could be wrong
I do agree that it's probable that amateurs are just bad at evaluation. It's not really something we practice, and then a move that just looks amazing is hard to resist. The habit of telling your intuition "hold on a sec" is a hard one to train. Also, most people have only so much decision making capacity in their brain before fatigue sets in. My guess is that expert players don't really need to calculate most position, so they are fresh when they reach a difficult position. Amateurs on the other hand are working hard on every move after their opening knowledge is spent. They'll probably have much more resistance to thinking through a move for how it fails... but I could be wrong