I wouldn’t say that high, but yeah I think the majority of average people are dumb. Even people that are well educated and considered smart, will just believe stupid things they’re told without spending a few seconds to think it through or verify it.

You see it on reddit/lemmy a lot when an obviously fake post gets taken seriously by most commentors, or people just assume that the context someone gives in a title is true, because they literally believe whatever they see on the internet ESPECIALLY if its something that reinforces a strongly held belief.

And that’s lemmy users who I generally consider to be on average a fair but smarter and more critical than you’re average bloke.

So if we were to talk about you’re average middle aged man that’s been a trade for 20 years, spends every night down the boozer and his only hobby is getting into fights at football matches… yeah.