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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
-George Carlin
Maybe more like 50%. But maybe it just seems like that to me, I might just be a mid tier dum-dum ¯_(ツ)_/¯
No, this is a classic case of confirmation bias on social media. And I've seen too many people on Lemmy on the daily who have developed a smug attitude and think that everyone else is just another idiot and talk down to others from the start because of it. For a crowd that preaches compassion and understanding, sometimes I wonder why it's only selectively applied by these folks.
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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?
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
Yeap, Its actually true
only when I'm driving
Snark mode activated: After reading through the "Threads Federation" comments, and seeing what opinions/comments are currently most popular, I'm going to go with YES.
But jokes aside, my actual personal opinion is no.
More like 99.
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.
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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