Why is it preferable to call a static method statically from within an instance of the method's class?

Question

If I create an instance of a class in Java, why is it preferable to call a static method of that same class statically, rather than using this.method()?

I get a warn

Answer 1

Static methods are not tied to an instance of the class, so it makes less sense to call it from a this than to call it from Class.staticMethod(), much more readable too.