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They say if you don’t know who the sucker is at a card table…
Anyway yeah you’ve probably just never ever ever met anyone who was even slightly below average intelligence. Statisticians might want to study your story
As someone who also went to a good university and worked in tech, it boggles my mind that someone with that experience could claim not to have met a dumb person. I have to question OP's ability to judge intelligence. People from those social environments do at least have to develop the patina of not being a knuckle-dragger which some might be fooled by, but I've seen many cases of deep stupidity lurking behind that.
imagine you never went to school and work in septic system maintenance, and spend your entire life in one small suburban town, never really leaving unless you go on vacation once a year or so for a week.
can you imagine this person never meeting a dumb person? or maybe it's that they wonder why people are so ignorant of septic systems and keep flushing weird shit down their toilets and fucking up their plumbing?
Yeah OP is the dumb one or just terrible at judging people's level of dumb.