Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?

QaspR@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 458 points –

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."

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On average people think they are a lot smarter than the average person

Bad drivers rarely believe they are bad at driving.

Nothing does quite so good a job revealing how highly they think of themselves as sharing that Carlin quote. It's the clarian call of the faux intellectual.