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Think of how stupid the average person is... (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― George Carlin

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I attribute intelligence to not just solving problems but also possessing rational, critical and logical thinking. If any one of those qualities is missing or more than one, yeah someone is absolutely dumb.

I admit I'm not any smarter, I mean, I don't have much in the way of presenting anything I know academically, but I still am smart in other ways.

I'm just proud that I'm smarter than 71 million people in my country, so that's a pat on the back.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Unfriendly reminder that one half of US adults read at a 6th grade level. When you think the average person is stupid, be aware of how incredibly stupid that is

Edit: don't use this as an excuse to feel high and mighty, though. On average, you're average, and you can't know what level you read at without getting tested.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Everyone dumber than me is a moron.

Everyone smarter than me is an asshole.

With all these morons and assholes everywhere, it's amazing society even functions.

^(FYI: this is a parody of a George Carlin joke about driving)^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Nah, educating people is a lost cause. Who are we to educate anyone, anyway? Educate yourself, then whoever wants can rub off your education

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The pitch meeting for Trump University

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've long said (and this is a hill that I'm willing to die on) that everyone is smart in some way. We're all just smart about different things and in different ways.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Just think about all the amazing ways we can all be dumbfucks. Isn't it neat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This statement is not true for cases where one or more person has average intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just saying this proactively: Half the people are dumber than the Median, not the Average.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A median is an average. So are the mean and mode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh you're right, I should have said "mean" instead of "average". Average and mean used to be the same but the definition of "average" has changed through misuse.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

This is just Socrates.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Many dumb people are too dumb to even realize that they're dumb.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

That's my secret cap, I'm always dumb.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (5 children)

This is allegedly also why true geniuses suffer. Imagine being smarter than 95% of people and being keenly aware of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

95% is a little low for a genius.

At 95%, you are the smartest in a room of 20.

Depending on if you are talking about ordinary or extraordinary genius, depending on which measure you choose ordinary genius is in the 1 in 10k range; and extraordinary genius is 100 to 1000 times rarer 1 in a million to 1 in 10 million range.

If you are sitting in a stadium of 50k, and you are the smartest person. You are still likely not and extraordinary genius.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I'm in my schools gifted program. That means you need an IQ in the top 10% (iirc) and tbh nobody there thinks that they're smart. Literally everyone there is a dumbass who thinks in numbers slightly more often than non gifted kids.
Also add on top the statistical likelihood to be autistic/ADHD (twice exceptional is very common btw), myself being both! It's just a normal class where those 2 or 3 kids who constantly yell/act up aren't there and on Fridays the teacher lets you make a windmill out of a paper plate, old paint brushes, and air dry clay. Last year the teacher accidentally made the finals answers all A. Tbh I'm just in it for my resume.

On Halloween she let us draw on the board

Then played toddler sensory videos

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Ah, the good ol days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

The people who are "keenly aware of it" always smell like they pissed on their pants zipper.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you think genius implies good personal hygiene, I think I know which side of the graph you fall on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like you fancy yourself a scumbag philosopher.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Definitely know where your emotional intellegence falls on the graph.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Did I ever tell you the story about [Cowboys], and [m-midgets], and the Indians and fron-frontier psychiatrist? [I-I-I felt strangely hypnotised I was in another world], a world of twenty-[twenty thousand girls]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I met this Dunning guy who told me about Keurig but Nespresso is better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Eh, keurig doesn't seem like a great company, but they're nowhere near as bad as nestle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Unfortunately, stupid people also think themselves geniuses forced to suffer fools.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Most of the people think their above average.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You not replying makes me think you didn't do that misspelling on purpose, which is way more funny.

People not being able to grasp basic shit like how to use there, their and they're correctly shows how dumb most people are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're probably sure you're above average, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'm good at a few things and average or worse at everything else. It's a wash

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Most people are way above (possibly in the top 1%) the average in a bunch of things.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're*

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I see what you did their.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're*

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

*There're

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The air'd dared upthere'd

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

There'ir

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Thayer?*

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

And sadly most are wrong.