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.”
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.”
Well maybe not 90% but I do feel like smarter* than average but then again half of the population is so that hardly makes me special.
I used to work for the military, i had to keep 65 random guys between the age of 19 and 39 busy for two weeks. Every now and then there was a batch of guys that was shockingly stupid. I’m not a very smart guy, usually when someone has an idea, i run with that, because i assume everyone else is smarter than me. But holy shit, i have no idea how some of these people even exist in the real world.
I paired two guys up, one was a carpenter and the other one works at a post office. Their task as to close up a door that wasn’t used anymore. I got two boards cut in size to mount on both sides. If i would’ve done it, i woul’ve given myself an hour. They spend 9 hours on it, using all kinds of tools, somehow ruining both boards, and it looked like ass.
This is only one story of two people, but the list just never ends. I’d never run out of stories for doing that job for only 5 years, which means a total of 10 weeks.
Some guys were scary dumb, but somehow had a functioning life.
Try driving in Rhode Island you’ll feel like the number is way higher than 90%
Judging by news and media I’d probably feel that way just being in US in general