Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47

• SW42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just look how stupid the average person is. Half of the people are more stupid. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The last few years have taught me that the difference between stupid and not stupid is oceans wider than I thought.

    I turns out stupid people are closer to what I thought the intelligence of an animal was.

    These people literally don’t think. They basically pattern match and that’s it. There’s no deeper reasoning. There’s no capacity for nuance, no understanding or extension of empathy. They can barely read. If you string the gibberish from an AI they’ll blindly trust that it’s correct above all evidence.

    Meanwhile we’re seeing all these nuanced multi step problem solving behaviours from birds and all animals and even bumblebees…

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    • Ack@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I read something from someone on the internet who claimed to work with bear-proof garbage cans and apparently it’s harder than one might expect. There’s some overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people.

      I’m sure the bears are more motivated, but still…

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      • jmill@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The quote “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” is usually attributed to a Yosemite National Park Ranger taking about the issue with designing bear proof trash cans.

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think you mean then median person. 🤓

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    • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can’t speak for anyone else, but I was taught that mean, median, and mode are three different types of average.

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      • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh crap. Translating average to my language yields the same word as mean. But you’re right.

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Under a normal distribution/bell curve mean and median are the same.

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      • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Considering intelligence/stupidity isn’t defined, it’s a lot to assume that its distribution can be approximated by a Gaussian.

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• SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He’s 80 and spent 6 of then as president. I don’t think you’d fare much better. Why blame a senile man rather than those who put him in place?l

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because even before he was a senile old man, he was already a child raping con artist?

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My grandfather was 104 when he died and until he was about 95 and had a stroke he was still perfectly capable of tinkering around with his car and it still worked at the end of it. “Old” isn’t an excuse, anyway we have documented evidence that he has been been a gormless idiot his whole life.

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can without a shadow of a doubt say I would be a better president.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When he finally does die they’re going to Weekend at Bernie’s him for as long as they can. But we’re all immediately going to be able to tell, because the level of stupid comments will drop significantly.

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  • DaleGribble88@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Por que no los dos?

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• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  His brain is soup. Probably a combination of hard drugs and venereal diseases.

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• TheRedSpade@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ignorance is often glorified here.

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