The Idiocy of the Average

[Anonymous No.9981575]

http://www.unz.com/akarlin/stupid-people/

>about half of Americans are unable to correctly read a table and do a simple addition/subtraction calculation:
>Only 52% could do item AB30901, which is to look at a table on page 118 of the 1980 World Almanac and answer: According to the chart, did U.S. exports of oil (petroleum) increase or decrease between 1976 and 1978?

Jesus Christ...

[Anonymous No.9981862]

>>9981575
Not that crazy desu. Its all of the boomers who got straight Cs in high school, didn't go to college, haven't had to look at a graph in 30-40 years, but have still had steady work their entire lives. Not counting the black boomers that went to shit segregated schools and the other minority boomers who only went up to the 6th grade equivalent in their country before getting a full time job.

[Anonymous No.9981866]

>>9981575
I feel like this has to do with a lack of knowledge rather than intelligence

[Anonymous No.9981874]

>>9981866
>I feel like this has to do with a lack of knowledge rather than intelligence
Are you fucking kidding me? Opening up a book and comparing two numbers requires intensive study? The only knowledge you need is basic literacy.

[Anonymous No.9981882]

those are the 52% white ones

[Anonymous No.9981884]

>>9981874
When people see something they aren't familiar with, they have a tendency to give up trying to understand it even if it happens to be very simple.

[Anonymous No.9981888]

>>9981866
>>9981884
I agree with this

[Anonymous No.9981892]

>>9981884
>>9981888
You're the perfect embodiment of clever sillies. I bet you're socialists.

[Anonymous No.9981895]

>>9981892
What does socialism have to do with our opinions? Genuinely asking.

[Anonymous No.9981900]

>>9981895
Are you a socialist or do you have socialistic sympathies?

[Anonymous No.9981901]

>>9981895
Nothing, hes just trying to le epic btfo da libtards

[Anonymous No.9981905]

>>9981900
No I don't really know enough about politics to say what I am. I'm really ignorant about the whole thing.

[Anonymous No.9981916]

>>9981575
Breaking news, americans are fat and dumb. Everyone knew that already except american themselves. Check the MIT, everyone is asian there.

[Anonymous No.9981931]

Half of /sci/ are incapable of understanding Finnegans Wake but we intellectuals don't sneer at you. I'm sure you're plenty smart in your field - everyone is

[Anonymous No.9981939]

>>9981575
human rights was a mistake

[Anonymous No.9981945]

>>9981892
>I bet
there is no wagering at 4chan, Grandpa

[Anonymous No.9981957]

>the study found that while 99% of /sci/ consisted of physically healthy heterosexual males, less that 1% of /sci/ was believed to be in a sexual relationship of any kind, or had ever maintained such a relationship
>these findings surprised researchers, who could find no explanation for this discrepancy
Jesus Christ...

[Anonymous No.9981963]

>>9981901
I am a liberal though.

[Anonymous No.9981966]

>>9981957
>tfw I'm in the 1%

[Anonymous No.9981972]

>>9981966
Pls be in London

[Anonymous No.9981974]

>>9981862

this is why we need to genocide boomers

[Anonymous No.9981992]

>>9981957
>Sex
>When he can masturbate to copious amounts of porn without worrying about stds or irrational womanly outbursts

[Anonymous No.9981994]

>>9981957
I'm glad I've found my beautiful waifu. Now I'm in the 1%.

[Anonymous No.9982010]

I'm not the brightest crayon in the box by any means but it is still difficult to wrap my head around just how much dumber so many people are than me, according to this article any way.

[Anonymous No.9982019]

>>9981931
I don't think the point of literature is to merely 'understand' it, least of all Joyce.

[Anonymous No.9982024]

>>9981575
>>9982010
The article says a lot of really dumb shit, too, basically half of it is the author shilling. It can hardly speak of stupidity in a clear light.

[Anonymous No.9982032]

>>9982010
do you remember high school anon? i do. all those classmates you had in high school who struggled with basic high school math and general reading comprehension. remember them? they all eventually go on to get jobs in the real world. doing...whatever it is they actually do. even with how much colleges have lowered their standards, even still only 40% of us high school students go on to bother actually completing college. I actually may be overestimating this number too come to think of it. just think about that for a moment.

I'm not super smart either, I'm a middle brow intellect at best. but the average normie really is that dumb. both in terms of the actual functioning problem solving skills, and in terms of the functioning problem solving skills they can actually attain. the average norm isn't smarter than they seem deep down, they are ACTUALLY dumber.

>>>/r/iamverysmart
>>>/r/rickandmorty

unironically

[Anonymous No.9982041]

>>9981992
But your hand gets tiring after a while homie

[Anonymous No.9982046]

>>9982032
I'm guessing just sitting down and opening a damn book won't solve the problem?.. or the old tactics of "self education"? I'm not narcissistic nor nothing, but alot of free time is spent reading of varies fields of sciences, when I'm not programming away lol. But at the same time it irritates me that I know all this things while sipping my organic tea and never actually putting this things into practice.. i.e Gene manipulation or mechanical engineering a damn robot or something...

[Anonymous No.9982135]

>>9981992
>le women are irrational xD
go back to beddit and tip your fedora there

[Anonymous No.9982140]

>>9982135
Women really are irrational though. Less rational than men on average, in any case.

[Anonymous No.9982147]

>>9982019
>he doesn't understand Joyce
It's doesn't matter anon. We are all special people in our way, and people who understand Joyce aren't better than you, any more than you are better than people because you understand the things you understand

[Anonymous No.9982152]

>>9982135
Most western women have more compassion for fighting age men than children. IQ doesnt save them from traitorous behaviour, as resisting the agressive invader would mean Genetic Death. Giving women voting rights was the single most destructive mistake in the history of the west. I glee for the day women get disqualified from participating in politics all together

[Anonymous No.9982158]

>>9982152
That compassion comes from the fact that refugees can provide greater sexual satisfaction than western men can.

[Anonymous No.9982161]

>>9982158
Indeed, women seem to enjoy fantasizing about rape a great deal

[Anonymous No.9982188]

>>9982019
The point of literature is to embarrass people by debunking their understanding of it. The point of science is to whore out your discipline to wealthy benefactors. Prove me wrong. Pro-tip: you can't.

[Anonymous No.9982194]

Hypothesis: the response to any post positing a /sci/ blindspot around women confirms the existence of said blindspot

[Anonymous No.9982201]

>>9982194
Hypothesis: "cognitive biases" are used converationally to introduce unfalsifiable premises.

1
>P: You have a blindspot.
>S: No I don't.
>P: Lol, that proves you have a blindspot.

2
>P: You have a blindspot.
>S: I believe I do.
>P: Lol. You admit to having a blindspot.

[Anonymous No.9982216]

>>9982188

[Anonymous No.9982230]

>>9982216
Nice try. That's a self-serving cognitive bias, but I'll serve it nonetheless.

Literature:
>I read a book that a lot of people talk about and actually this is the key issue most people don't realize.
Very seldom do readers go beyond surface nitpicking.

Science is a bitch
1. Entomologists ended up the bitches of the pesticide companies.
2. Ecologists ended up the bitches of alternative energy companies.
3. Geologists ended up the bitches of mining companies.
Counter-examples may exist, but I think this is the rule.

[Anonymous No.9982247]

>>9981862
fpbp

boomers had it too easy. never had to learn anything to be successful.that's why they get insecure and wail about "i went to school of real life! i got stret smarts!" whenever education and science is brought up

[Anonymous No.9982249]

>>9982247
Most people who talk about street smarts are fucking morons.

[Anonymous No.9982263]

>>9982230
Literature: surround yourself with the actual thinkers and analyzers, not those who "read for fun"

Science: people pay for science to be done. If you don't want their funding, you don't need to take it. If you want to research freely, go to a teaching college, their work is completely free since they get little to no funding. Otherwise, you'll market your research to someone who cares, but they give you funding, not taking you how to do your research or start to do it on. If you are whoring yourself out, you are a bad scientist. If you are following trends, you are a sheep scientist, if you are marketing your research to an appropriate audience, you are an informed scientist.

[Anonymous No.9982281]

>>9982263
Honestly that's a fair reply. You gave this way more work than it deserved. Kudos.

[Anonymous No.9982287]

>>9981945
>When pretend to not understand a rhetorical device.

[Anonymous No.9982929]

>>9982263
>If you are whoring yourself out, you are a bad scientist. If you are following trends, you are a sheep scientist,

Nothing wrong with either.

[Anonymous No.9982939]

>>9982041
That's what onaholes are for, anon.

[Anonymous No.9982941]

>>9981884
>When people see something they aren't familiar with, they have a tendency to give up trying to understand it even if it happens to be very simple.
And that means the problem is not a lack of knowledge.

[Anonymous No.9982950]

OP doesn't realize that the USA is almost 400m people and that most of the country is rural farming land and shitty factory towns, I guess

[Anonymous No.9982953]

I went through elementary and high school almost brain dead only learning enough math to pass the class now I realize what a idiot i was and want to get good with math so what can i do now or should i just give up ? Any books that could help me ?

[Anonymous No.9982965]

>>9982953
>get good
How good? Khan Academy is a pretty okay place to start for introductory-level coverage of high school (and a tiny bit of university) math.

[Anonymous No.9982985]

>>9982965
I guess all around solid knowledge of everything I missed on because of my stupidity

[Anonymous No.9983020]

>>9981884
This.

Here’s another way of thinking about this. If we were to simply present 2 numbers and ask the participants to choose the largest one, do you think only 52% could do it? Okay, now how about prices between entrees on a menu?

The process of looking it up in a table is the unfamiliarity here, and while it doesn’t speak highly of many people’s flexibility, it doesn’t directly measure math skills.

[Anonymous No.9984052]

>>9983020
This task wasn't about comparing two numbers. 48% Americans don't know how to look up a page and read a chart. This is the problem.

[Anonymous No.9984080]

>>9982939
What's an anohol?

[Anonymous No.9984095]

>People don't value knowledge because it costs them nothing to get.
>The internet/social media has become a black hole of free time and people don't learn what they traditional have on their own

[Anonymous No.9984098]

I wonder if they are happier on average :/

[Anonymous No.9984122]

>>9984095
Noah's Ark and Adam and Eve are jewish stories though, not Christian ones.

[Anonymous No.9984130]

>>9984122
But the Jews hate the old testament and yhwh. They worship Satan, Shekels, and their fellow Semites.

[Anonymous No.9984134]

>>9981862
>it's all boomers who haven't done this for 40 years
WRONG, you didn't read the article. It's 15-year-old high-school students.

[Anonymous No.9984144]

>>9981575
Because giving kids degrees is more important than the kids learning what the degrees entail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kibaFBgaPx4

[Anonymous No.9984173]

>>9984144
>2:22
>42
well played

[Anonymous No.9984180]

>>9982140
stop talking shit
women are dominating academia (not just muh gender studies but also fucking stem) and female grandmasters have whooped men over and over again

stop this fucking incel meme

[Anonymous No.9984275]

>>9984180

Sorry sweetie, try again. Women are "dominating" due to affirmative action.

[Anonymous No.9984283]

>>9984180
Then why there is much fewer females than males in my STEM university and males get all important achievements?
Various clubs and associations that focus on doing more things than academia, places where people who are actually passionate and want to do more are done full of males as well. The only girls that come here are just girlfriends of other members. Barely any women I've ever met during my whole life was even close to the most passionate and talented people I know. Females just don't care about these subjects outside of job and university.

[Miniature Spacecraft No.9984287]

The United States is strange: they are both the greatest country in history and the most retarded. They can give you pure geniuses and pure retards at the same time.

[Anonymous No.9984289]

>>9984287
It's because they are large.
Russia is large too but they are poor.
China is large too, but we rarely hear anything from it. Relatively speaking.

[Anonymous No.9984324]

>>9981866
>I feel like your feeling is about what you're feeling
Lrn2logic feelfag pls

[Anonymous No.9984350]

>>9984122
the flood myth predates the jewish tradition too

[Anonymous No.9984643]

Y'all are getting out of line...

[Anonymous No.9984975]

>>9981575
Pic unrelated. Yui a cute high IQ autist.