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.”
When i’m the bad guy because I know that any person who is pregnant is a 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.
To paraphrase George Carlin, by definition half of the population is below average intelligence. But nobody thinks they’re in that bottom half.
This is interesting to me though. Didn’t most people (at least in developed countries) take tests in school? Get grades? I would think if you did below average on those you kind of…should know that you’re in the bottom half?
I get that it’s possible to make changes after schooling, and grades are only somewhat reliable (in that they also rely on effort) but still.
You ever see the people who get As in school take an aptitude test? They don’t always get high scores.
Not to mention grades are about doing the work and having the discipline and organizational skills. There are plenty of people who are very intelligent, but lack both of those. US testing metrics (is that the right word?) are heavily flawed. This isn’t even bringing up the racist aspect of most institutions, including educational being headed up and formulated by white people.