Submitted 11 months ago by QaspR@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”
A lot of people feel the ways you do at one point or another in their lives, and that means you probably end up in their 90%.
No, it just means that he’s smart enough to notice.
If you meet people every day that can’t do simple math, yeah, that gets under your skin really fast… and then you start to notice other things, like their attitude towards life and problems, their lack of logical reasoning, etc. And then you realize that, yes, most people are stupid. You yourself are not very smart, but smart enough to notice.
My guess is, in most cases, people just lack good education. Sure, there are simpletones, but most people are not like that, they just never had proper education and guidance. And the problem seems to perpetuate. They don’t see anything wrong with the way they were raised, so they raise their children the same way. An oddball might break the cycle every now and then, but their number is far too low to make an impact, so they usually just move when they become of age.
By what standards do you rank us? Half of us are stupider than average. We're all of very limited intelligence - the best we can do is to team together to function as one gigantic brain of humanity, drawing from the strongest qualities of all of us. That way the world can be brought forward by brilliant scientists who are completely stupid in their own way, and who would never survive a week on their own.
Politics are tricky, but I think it's more fruitful to think of people as brainwashed than stupid. The amount of propaganda we're subject to these days is unprecedented.
As for general stupidity, be charitable; judge people by what they're best at. Most people have over thing or another they are great at, and our differences is what makes humanity occasionally great.
If you judge a fish by his ability to climb a tree, he will live his entire life thinking he is a failure.
Yep. Wanted to ask the same thing a while back, but was afraid of backlash.
And it’s well over 90%, I’d say like closer to 95, 96.
I was feeling the same. I saw 90% and was immediately impressed at their optimism.
Yes, myself included.
Well, that’s the thing about average person. Half of them are below the average and other half is above.
It’s really dependent on how the curve of that average is defined. Linear? Bell curve? Logarithmic?
It’s lower than 90% for sure, but I’d be comfortable putting the number at a solid 40%.
Thinking is hard work and with easy access to pre-cooked opinions online, they don’t need to put in any effort.
Amen brother or sister
I feel this, but more along the line of chosen ignorance rather than actual stupidity. Either a new topic us overwhelming or they worry\fear they’ll get it “wrong”. Also, being from the south, where so much has been politicized, they fear the tribal back lash of thinking for themselves. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I was never the type to “go with it”.
I think I’m part of that 90% without a doubt lol
I know I am and I also believe that this kind of certainty proves it lol
What is wokeness?
Getting out of bed in the morning. Stupid. Huge mistake. Cannot recommend.
Can you rephrase this with better grammar and punctuation? (If you are more proficient in another language feel free to use that language.)
There’s always a grammar groupie waiting to suck off the band. Here you go ,;!:?.
Praise ba jeebus!
Yeap, Its actually true
Well, it is not “90% of people is stupid”
It is more “at any given time, the 90% of people is doing something stupid”, or the equivalent statement “90% of the time people does stupid things”
IIRC math guys call this an “ergodic and stationary” system
Yes, we all do, and most of us outgrow it.
I mean, a lot of people have a tendency to do “stupid” things, and maybe even say stupid things - but I wouldn’t classify 90% of the population as stupid. First problem is that “stupid” isn’t a very quantifiable quality - and “smarter” really depends on the perspective of the way you’re looking at it. I’ll use what someone else mentioned here as an example: I would like to say that I’m at least a decent software developer (or so I hope), but I know absolutely nothing about cars (I don’t even have one). While I’m pretty well rounded on the software side of computers, I’m terrible at the hardware side. I am also terrible at math aside from the very basics (and even then… eh) - hence, I’d never have a good shot at even getting into game development if that were something I wanted to pursue.
So not only can I not comment on whether other people are “stupid”, I can’t even account for myself, because there’s no metric for it. Are we going off of IQ (I have zero clue what my IQ is, nor do I really have an interest in finding out what it might be)? Are we going off of being able to answer Jeopardy questions?
I have no idea, but if so, I’m definitely in that 90%.
When i’m the bad guy because i know that any person who is pregnant is woman… yeah
You are the embodiment of Dunning-Kruger.
see, anytime i say something like this you folks just say something like that. You don’t have facts behind you, you have an idea that psychologists came up with in the 1950’s, that’s it… but sure, just keep insulting me and saying " i can’t believe you believe this, what an idiot!" while proving nothing except that your words speak everything about you and nothing about me.
More like 99.
And getting worse.
Holy crap this got more attention than I was bargaining for…
Excuse me! I resemble that remark!
proud to be the majority 💪💪
So our brains were crafted to intake “reality” at a specific speed and quality. We can’t see things at the atomic, much less quantum reality, nor understand the massive scale of the planet, much less the universe. Most “facts” are more beliefs from what others have suggested to be, than individually researched facts. Even our scientific method is a bit wanting in this area, since if we hear X, how can we prove X? We just need to take other’s word that they did the correct process, didn’t lie during any steps, didn’t have any bad data unknowingly, especially in a culture where reproducibility is not a high priority so most scientific papers are not thoroughly tested and retested
That’s roughly our skeletal social structure around “facts”, and we’re heading face first into a world of deep fakes and misinformation, to an extent never seen before in humanity. So maybe we should all extend each other a bit more patience and kindly help each other through these uncertain times
Even our scientific method is a bit wanting in this area, since if we hear X, how can we prove X?
by looking at their lab notes and repeating their experiment and seeing if we can make the same observations. if they lied about their process (see the guy that claimed he made a room temp superconductor…) they get caught out.
I think you thoroughly misunderstand the process involved. yeah, there’s more emphasis on being first… but no… there’s definitely still verification. Oh. and. yes. we can image atoms.
Yeah, I’d second this. The scientific method is very thorough.
So thinking on this more, there are many studies that are impossible to replicate, either due to time, money, or team size. Think about weather studies, no human lives long enough, so we have to push the belief back on the original data being accurate. Human studies that span millions of people are also hard for small teams or individuals to replicate. Also hard to have a particle accelerator for most people, so we have to trust the accelerators function properly, the data collected is not malformed and the interpretations are also correct (the last bit is what we could possibly double check if we had direct access)
I love the scientific method as well, but I think we still have some limits. Even if we had infinite time, but without infinite resources we might not be able to replicate everything “scientifically proven” (and even then, due to space time curvature, it might not be possible if infinite time and infinite resources had a fixed physical point, but that is probably Einsteinian philosophy)
Agreed, science is essentially set up as a competition such that disproving important things is also rewarded; reproducibility comes up more for niche fields
Totally agree that most of the tools are there, but how many trials have you personally duplicated? The average person?
You’re right that science doesn’t ever really prove anything per se. The best it can do is come up with a useful model that we can use to make predictions. The neat part is that this is extremely practical. You can take prediction X and apply it in the real world, so you don’t have to take someone at face value. For example, you know the theory of electromagnetism is more or less accurate because we have phones that extensively use those principles.
only when I’m driving
Maybe more like 50%. But maybe it just seems like that to me, I might just be a mid tier dum-dum ¯_(ツ)_/¯
All of “facts” is something someone told you and you believed based on their presentation. A lab coat and clipboard makes the fact no less wrong than a robe and candles. The stuff in textbooks is written by people with an interest in controlling your behavior. The best lies are sprinkled with truth.
I have literally zero means of believing basically anything anymore.
op, it’s not just you, i promise. 🙂
i encourage you to watch this in it’s entirety. while it covers a different life story, it explores some avenues of what you are possibly feeling when you ask this question.
You, of course, are firmly in that 10%, I assume.
Oh, c’mon. I’m not misanthropic 😂
Your sentiment is 90% of people supposedly being or seeming like being stupid. I assume that you use stupid in a colloquial sense as I don’t believe you think 90% of people are disabled. The colloquial sense contains quite a lot of contempt though, enough to qualify as misanthropy.
If you don’t like misanthropy, avoiding overgeneralisation like 90% of people being something, even in informal situations, helps a lot.
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Most people just don’t care enough in my opinion. When it comes to politics, all they want is to be left alone. They just look for the first piece of media that confirms their biases and be content with that. I think that’s why conservat8ve fearmongering works so well. All they have to do is to convince those persons that the left wants to tell them how to live and that is enough for those people to trust that conservative media.