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That most people are much dumber than they initially appear to be. "Average intelligence" isn't enough to form a basic understanding of the world.
But you aren’t one of the dumb people right?
Definitely not. I don't post low effort snide comments as a reply and think that I'm witty.
Well, mostly I do it for the satisfaction of a response.
Not OP but I can fully accept I’m a roving idiot ¯\(ツ)/¯
One time I tried pump my fuel and it kept stopping right away. I moved pumps and the same thing. I was looking down the hole to see if anything was blocking it, I went inside to inform the attendant their pumps might be malfunctioning. Then I realized, the night prior I had already filled up. I'm a dumbass.
To my credit, however; it is my routine to fill up every morning (I drive courier) A night fill up was off routine. Still a dumbass.
Another victim of the routine autopilot. It gets us all from time to time.
I thought the ac was broken in my work truck for several days in July because I forgot I had turned the heat on one chilly morning and for some reason my eyes repeatedly didn't catch that dumb temperature dial still turned to heat. I kept pushing the ac button on and off and then just ended up sweltering because I basically had the heat on in July.
That dumbassery will humble me for a while.
You may be overestimating how literate the average person is.
Everyone is ignorant in their own way and there is not a person alive you can’t learn something from.
Except for babies.
Honestly I was just thinking about that and I think you could learn a thing or two from a baby. They're very in touch with their emotions.
Yeah, babies are fucking stupid... absolutely the dumbest. Constantly trying to kill themselves. No self preservation whatsoever.
Are you a new dad that was recently on "keeping it alive" duty? :D
That doesn't mean there are no differences in people's intelligence.
Then please don’t let me interrupt the dick measuring.
Yep, dicks are very diverse too.
I'm a fucking ignorant moron on the vast majority of topics.
A dumb person will happily talk about everything as if they understand it. A smart person will shut about the things they don't understand and be open to being educated.
I'm the smortest! I know how to do things
I think a lot of that stems from most peoples' lack of innate curiosity about the world. I used to think most people wanted to know how things work so they have a stronger understanding of the world. Now? No so much.
me to until, i found out online spaces created safe space for pseudoscience, pseudointellectualism too. even people in stems fall into pseudoscience quite often.
I distinctly remember the day I lost faith in educated people.
I do Workplace Safety and (waste) compliance. That day, I was at a rent-a-lab, telling people about how stuff works regarding their chemicals. Now, I have a doctorate in chemistry, but that room had more degrees than people by a pretty good margin.
I had to go over basic concepts like "the hand washing sink is not for rinsing chemicals. No, not even if you run the tap a lot" and "yes, you can run a waterhose down the special disposal sink, but it costs your company thousands of euros" several times.
Or "yes, if you scoop a little bit of [hazardous waste] into each bag of used napkins, you are technically below the level of it being a bag full of hazardous waste, but you're also willingly and intentionally commiting ecological crimes and slowly murdering garbage workers. Yes, if I signed off on it, nobody would know, and that would make me an accomplice AND make this a conspiracy, so I suggest we don't do things that will get me fined roughly all worldly possessions".
Most damning was "no, these barrels aren't magic. Anything you put in a barrel will stay in the barrel. Yes it says "disposal", but they're loose barrels. They don't empty till someone empties them. Like a bucket".
Actually, MOST damning was "no you can't keep food in the lab. Not even in the special food-only fume hood". But that was at a different place.
...these are the same kinds of people duped into voting for things against their own interest, they just know a lot about chemistry too.
An IT career led me to meet plenty of people like that. But those are some doozies. I feel like basic competency needs a certificate similar to a GED etc.
And you holding 3 degrees.