I was thinking about this. I went to university, and I worked in tech for decades. I met many assholes but I didn’t meet anyone that would fit on the left half of the bell curve (less than 100 iq).

Since I’ve been living in that bubble my entire life, I’m curious of your stories. Have you met someone who was actually quite dumb (not just having opinions you don’t agree with) and do you have an example situation you remember you can share?

Hopefully this becomes more funny than hateful since intelligence is not the value of a person, but it can be funny to read the stories.

  • gedfromgont@piefed.caEnglish
    17·
    6 days ago

    Yeah, about a decade back. A friend of my roommate was not very bright. She said stuff like "why would anyone do a PhD, didn’t we already research all there is?”.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      12·
      6 days ago

      You’re gonna give me a small crisis with that one.

      I’ve racked my brain trying to figure out how anyone could be so culturally and politically regressive when the world is chock full of stuff that didn’t exist a decade or two ago. And then your post shows a very plausible anecdote that kind of explains it. To think that anyone would observe the outside world and see a fixed and solved existence with no forward trajectory, despite recent history clearly illustrating the opposite, just baffles me. Yet, that really happens.