Ask Lemmy

I've met people who work in management, yes.

I met a good deal of people with intellectual disabilities in the past. Few of them were a bit difficult, but most of them were innocent and very authentic. Frankly, that authenticity made it chill to be around them.

Over here seems like every friend group has the dumb one. When they nice person who cares?

Of course I know him! He's me.

They aren't dumb. They are intellectually disabled, and maybe of them have areas of superior ability.

That being said, yes I have; and I've met beaucoup supersmart, intellectually lazy people who were ignorant as a box of rocks.

Don't believe "intelligence" can be quantified.

Certainly. Probably not enough because this time period still threw me for a loop. So although I have met them they did not seem predominant. Honestly how smart a dumb a person is not such a big deal as much as how smart they are vs how much they think they are. Like there are folks who realize they were not the head of the class and sorta keep quite and identify folks to get advice from and then there are some who completely do not realize how little they understand things and will be insistive of all sorts of crap. Honestly one mark of intelligence I often see is a massive realization of how much they don't know.

When I was in high school, I volunteered for a couple of days in a special ed class, which, I guess by definition, contained people with sub-100 IQ (sub-70, even). I guess that fits your specifications. One thing I remember observing was that the girls were more capable of stringing together coherent sentences than the boys.

Also, a couple of years ago, I worked as a school bus driver for 3 months while looking for a tech job. There seemed to be much more variance in intelligence among my colleagues than I was used to: some seemed to be just as smart as most of the ones in my previous tech jobs, but others, while they were generally nice enough, seemed to fail to grasp basic concepts or retain information very well during the training.

I hear there were some intelligent people on my dad's side of the family. But my mom's side is kinda dumb.

My wife's family has some dumbos as well, dunno how you got away from all that.

Now, my immediate bubble is full of professors, engineers, etc. So, I dunno. It's a mixed bag, and i kinda assumed everyone had that experience given that i have a few data points of that.

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I teach industrial electronics at a community college. We get a wide spectrum of students, many are average students, some upper 10% absorb information like a sponge and i barely have to teach them anything, then there's the lower 10% who are so clueless and confused that you don't understand how they arrived to class on their own (assuming they didn't literally have help from somebody). They can barely count, they don't know what fractions are, they can't keep papers and handouts organized, they have horrible spatial reasoning, etc. The sad part is they know how bad they are... even if you're a dummy, you're but clueless about it, especially when you see the other 15 people in a class who ate learning and progressing to the next thing yet you cannot grasp the items being presented. These people are still on problem number 2 after 15 minutes when others are already done with the whole first page. Anyway what always happens is I'll drag them through the classwork but they do horrible on quizzes and exams, muddle through with a C average (which really means you don't understand the content), then they usually wash out during the 3rd or 4th semester. It's very predictable during their very first classes but hey it's not my job to profile people even if it's a guarantee 🤷‍♂️

Man, I had an IQ test tell me 145 or some similar score. I still struggle with simple things like with laundry, cleaning and cooking. I've never had my drivers license because driving is fucking hard. I flunked my bachelor's degree twice before finally getting it.

Dumb is relative and situational. That being said, nowadays I'd probably be diagnosed with some form of autism and / or ADHD.

Every time I look in the mirror. I do posses a healthy amount of self-loathing though.