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.”
You live in Ohio? Florida?
Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?
Submitted 11 months ago by QaspR@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Varyk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
skeezix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Florida license plates slogan says Ignoramus State
Chozo@kbin.social 11 months ago
Well I know which half I'm in.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It definitely seems like 90 percent of people will twist themselves into knots to find a way to defend their beliefs regardless of how wrong those beliefs might be, morally and factually.
Admitting that you are wrong is hard.
bouh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s because you don’t realize the stupid things you’re doing or thinking.
The scientific method is the only way we know to reliably discover actual facts, and even with it it can take decades to see through some bullshit we consider as facts.
If you add manipulation, déception and lies, you can’t blame people for being mistaken or stupid. You can blame them for being assholes though.
numberfour002@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Snark mode activated: After reading through the “Threads Federation” comments, and see what opinions/comments are currently most popular, I’m going to go with YES.
But jokes aside, my actual personal opinion is no.
chitak166@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think they haven’t tapped into their potential intelligence.
lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
can’t say about rest of the population but when I read about some great people, I feel there’s too much to learn and too little time.
and it happens every single day.
LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 11 months ago