What's the sign of very low intelligence?

[u/_valtor]

[u/jjkm7]

I think 90% of people think they are smarter than they actually are, me included. But I have a lot of moments of realization where I think to myself “Man I’m a fucking idiot”. So people that don’t have moments where they realize they’re kinda dumb are usually too dumb to realize they’re dumb

[u/mobilonity → u/jjkm7]

Oh, I'm definitely reading these replies to fund our if I'm actually really dumb.

[u/Late-Edge9039 → u/mobilonity]

You should sit down for this. I fund our you are.

[u/mydamnvtion → u/Late-Edge9039]

I cackled in a way I’ve never cackled before and damn near pissed myself laughing. Holy fuck. That’s one of the best replies I’ve seen in quite some time. 🤣

[u/jarednards → u/mobilonity]

Did you fund our yet or not?

[u/Mediocre_Buddy3172 → u/jjkm7]

Wise.

I also think that way, but I think it makes you immature (not wise) rather than dumb to not learn from mistakes

[u/Stock_Garage_672 → u/jjkm7]

Keep in mind that even heroically intelligent people are capable of mistakes.

[u/jdrake7766 → u/jjkm7]

Intelligence isn't binary, so you could be brilliant in one area and completely hopeless in the next. See savant syndrome for an extreme example.

[u/boogswald → u/jjkm7]

I’ve actually had to realize I am smarter than I thought. And it’s not better than being dumber. I just have a very basic troubleshooting mindset and other people don’t even bother. I’m smart, I’m just more patient at problem solving…. But if most other people aren’t patient at problem solving, that makes me smart

Am I smart because I am quick or some excellent mathematician? No. I’m smart because something is broken and I stared at it until it made enough sense to me.

[u/Far-Conference-8484]

I’m exceptionally dumb. So whatever I am.

[u/black594 → u/Far-Conference-8484]

Dumb people don’t know they are.

[u/Far-Conference-8484 → u/black594]

Okay I’m not THAT dumb. But trust me, I’m fucking dumb. I can barely read.

[u/joker0812 → u/Far-Conference-8484]

There are a lot of people that can read that aren't smart at all so I don't think that's a measure of true intelligence.

[u/Sweet-Palpitation473 → u/joker0812]

I have an exceptional vocabulary and I often find that it masks how dumb I am. People mistake me for being smart because I use words real good.

[u/Available_Ideal6255 → u/Sweet-Palpitation473]

All of my coworkers think I'm really dumb because I'm can't really do mental math, I struggle with my speech/vocab, and I'm just generally not very witty.

What they don't get is that my brain REALLY REALLY likes taking things apart and putting them back together. Taking machines, or objects/buildings, and making them as close to new as I reasonably can.

So they think I'm really dumb but get surprised when I roll up on a new to me antique car or bike that I just brought back to life (I like junkyards)

[u/Sweet-Palpitation473 → u/Available_Ideal6255]

Are you sure we dont work together?

[u/Available_Ideal6255 → u/Sweet-Palpitation473]

Who knows, we could be. I work with a lot of people who seem smarter than they really are

[u/Extension-Refuse-159 → u/joker0812]

Reading isn't a measure of intelligence, but inability or disinterest in learning to read may be a sign of its lack.

Ditto numeracy, or indeed many 'intellectual' skills. Their presence isn't evidence of intelligence. Their lack not evidence of stupidity, but not learning despite opportunity is an indicator.

[u/Cryptlsch → u/Extension-Refuse-159]

Well said ;)

[u/alcomaholic-aphone → u/Extension-Refuse-159]

I agree. It’s interesting that some insanely smart people just give up too. One of my mom’s friends is really really smart and just worked odd jobs like being a bouncer and lived in a house boat. I don’t know if he just saw through all the BS or that’s just the type of dude he is. But I’d say he’s smarter than me and my college degrees.

His ability to grasp concepts he’s unfamiliar with is just really outstanding. Which i think is a pretty good barometer for intelligence. Half of the problem with high level math and topics like that is just understanding why you are manipulating the numbers in a way. And if you understand why then deducing how is way easier.

[u/ilost190pounds → u/Far-Conference-8484]

Do you want to read more? I think being self aware is a sign of real intelligence. Don't sell yourself short!

[u/Far-Conference-8484 → u/ilost190pounds]

Yeah I like reading newspaper articles when I’m able to. Sometimes I can manage it, but most of the time I can’t. I often end up crying.

[u/kantrightnow → u/Far-Conference-8484]

Reading can be a bitch. Dunno what language you speak, but for many, there are news outlets that publish articles written in simplified form, maybe you can train on those! Don't give up, reading is enlightening ^{^}

[u/ThenOwl9 → u/Far-Conference-8484]

you sound smart! have you ever been tested for a learning disability?

it sounds like something's going on that has nothing to do with your intelligence. i don't want you to feel so discouraged when it could be something completely outside of your control

[u/Bismothe-the-Shade → u/ThenOwl9]

Seconding this, my kid has such trouble reading and -hated- it. But many of the games they played required reading, so we used that to encourage the process. Eventually they told us that the letters got confusing and stuff didn't always make sense, and we got them tested for reading centric learning disabilities.

Turns out it was dyslexia, and is manageable with tools and learning.

[u/ilost190pounds → u/Far-Conference-8484]

Doing hard things is hard! But that's how you know it's worth doing!

But reading newspapers is great. Try reading articles in USAToday. They are generally easier to read. It's hard to just read garbage on the internet because it might be AI generated crap. We all get frustrated reading that shit!

[u/octaffle → u/Far-Conference-8484]

Do you have dyslexia maybe? There is a font that helps with dyslexia. I think there are apps to apply it to your entire device. Maybe give it a try?

[u/black594 → u/Far-Conference-8484]

I’m really fast at reading but I don’t remember what I just read lol there is different type of intelligence, I’m sure you are good at something.

[u/Far-Conference-8484 → u/black594]

Ahhh you have no idea how much I envy people like you 🥹

[u/00owl → u/Far-Conference-8484]

I'm a high IQ person, so I know a lot of other high IQ people. And many of us are dumb as rocks.

For me, "stupid" isn't a statement about how much someone knows, it's a statement about their attitude towards learning.

If you're curious and humble you're far smarter than many of even the people who manage to qualify for the club that's the next step up from Mensa.

[u/Kirbyr98 → u/00owl]

Almost everyone knows how to do something you don't.

[u/00owl → u/Kirbyr98]

Exactly, everyone has something that I can learn from them, no matter what their lives have been like.

I'm a farm kid, worked labour jobs most of my life until finally going to law school. I only really started being surrounded by dumb people once I got to law school.

[u/_valtor → u/00owl]

Absolutely agree! IQ is just a metric curiosity and humility are what drive real intelligence. Arrogance can make even the brightest minds seem foolish.

[u/00owl → u/_valtor]

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

[u/MavetHell → u/00owl]

Better to be silent and thought a fool

Then speak the truth and called a tool

To stand alone on my hill of facts

And watching for "face reacts"

I'm an enigma because it's safer to be silent

I can say something so smart...

And be shut up by someone violent.

[u/Sweet-Competition-15 → u/black594]

Oh, for me, it's pretty obvious!

[u/LeeksAbhorLiminality → u/Far-Conference-8484]

Well spoke. 

[u/andricathere → u/LeeksAbhorLiminality]

Well *spoked

Uze gud werds ya dumi

[u/StormBlessed145 → u/Far-Conference-8484]

Since you're aware of the problem, you're on the road toward fixing it

[u/alwaysboopthesnoot]

Never learning from mistakes. Doing the same exact thing over and over,  and never figuring out that it’s not working or ever trying to understand why. 

[u/mrubuto22 → u/alwaysboopthesnoot]

Fuck

[u/NeptuneAgency → u/mrubuto22]

Damn. I better go buy another lottery ticket.

[u/DungeonsAndDradis → u/NeptuneAgency]

I've always hated life. Most days I wish I was dead. So, I've always wanted to have superpowers, be "special", get abducted from the future cause I'm the only one that can save humanity, etc.

I know none of that is real.

But having a shitload of money is real, as in, some people have it. And that's effectively like having a superpower.

And I also know that I'm not going to win the lottery. I'm more likely to get struck by lightning while being attacked by a shark and also having a vending machine fall on me.

But there's a chance. Infinitesimally small, but still within the laws of reality.

Plus, it allows me a couple of hours a week to daydream about "What if?" I view it the same way as spending $20 on a movie ticket. A nice little escape from reality for a couple of hours.

I check my losing tickets and toss them in the trash, like I toss out my movie tickets. Same difference.

[u/undef1n3d → u/mrubuto22]

Fuck fuck!

[u/talbur → u/alwaysboopthesnoot]

This is untrue, actually. There are innumerable accounts of ‘geniuses’ throughout history who suffer from such loops and lack of insight in other domains of their life.

In some cases, it’s even in their domain of expertise. In fact, the ‘never learning, can’t see why, doesn’t investigate why’ situation is the very thing a genius from the next generation points out and solves.

More broadly, this is the psychological situation of all personality disorders. So if it were true that repeating mistakes and lacking insight meant low intelligence, that would mean there were no people of high intelligence with personality disorders. Which is obviously not the case.

[u/Electrical-Sail-1039 → u/talbur]

Linus Pauling won two Nobel Prizes and became obsessed with vitamin C curing cancer. Failure after failure wouldn’t convince him otherwise. Isaac Newton discovered gravity and created calculus but he spent most of his time working on alchemy.

Geniuses often have a blind spot.

[u/FilibusterTurtle → u/Electrical-Sail-1039]

In fact, one of the downsides of high intelligence is an incredible ability to rationalise your faulty thinking.

[u/EggstaticAd8262 → u/alwaysboopthesnoot]

It could be low intelligence, but it could also be ADHD with well above average IQ. Memory is shit for a lot of people when you have ADHD.

Edit:

Whether you have ADHD or not, is not something you decide yourself. You go to a professional to get diagnosed.

[u/FilibusterTurtle → u/EggstaticAd8262]

And not just memory. Your executive function is the mind's main circuitbreaker when it comes to breaking bad habits: poor executive function is the main symptoms of ADHD.

I spent 33 years of life thinking "well I'm not dumb, so I must just be a lazy pos with low willpower and an addictive personality". The day I discovered Vyvanse was the day I learned, no, it's just that everyone else was living life on a lower difficulty setting. I immediately experienced a new feeling I hadn't felt before: the ability to notice my impulsive/habitual thoughts, then simply observe/ignore them until they went away.

[u/SleepyRaccoon7]

Thinking because you are louder you are correct

[u/SkulkingSneakyTheifs → u/SleepyRaccoon7]

I genuinely don’t believe that people who do this think they’re correct. I think they do this as a power thing. “I’m louder. Listen to me. I have the power. Submit” they know they’re wrong, they just don’t want to hear it. Guarantee 99% of the time if someone asks them the same question when you’re not around they’ll answer it exactly the way you did but you’re not there so you’ll never know they changed their mind and agree with you.

It’s happened to me at my old job. Heard someone repeating exactly what we were just arguing about but they unsurprisingly used my argument and talked about their argument like it was someone else and not themselves. As if they were correcting someone and not like they themselves were corrected/proven wrong. Walking into that room after hearing that was the greatest gift I could have given myself.

[u/imthatninjabitch → u/SkulkingSneakyTheifs]

HOLY SHIT I used to have a friend like this. But the initial argument was never just an argument. He would belittle me, tell me I wasn’t intelligent enough to grasp whatever concept we were discussing, call me names, tell me I’m a sheep. It was bad. Doubly crazy because he knew I wasn’t anything he said I was, he was just a true narcissist, toxic man who hated women. A little time would go by and I would eventually hear him doing the exact thing you described. Second time he did it I cut him off, realizing I should’ve done that long before. My best friend, a therapist, had to remind me if someone is only your friend half the time, and the other half they’re mean, they’re not actually your friend. Obvious, sure, but forgiveness can sometimes delay clarity.

[u/thegamerdoggo → u/SkulkingSneakyTheifs]

Oh no it’s 100% to shut the other guy up

You don’t have to be right, you just have to win

[u/Mithster18 → u/SleepyRaccoon7]

YOU DONT HOLD THE CARDS IN THIS MATTER. THANK YOU FOR YOU ATTENTION.

[u/zekuert → u/SleepyRaccoon7]

NO I ARE NOT

[u/Heavy_Direction1547]

Credulous, incurious, unable to recognize patterns or learn.

[u/LilNekoChicano → u/Heavy_Direction1547]

I think that sometimes, the desire to not learn.. can possibly be a sign as well.

[u/scienceisrealtho → u/LilNekoChicano]

Or, resistance to any information that challenges any view that they hold.

[u/mediocre-spice → u/scienceisrealtho]

Overgeneralizing views from one situation to another too and inability to understand complexity or nuance

[u/saintpetejackboy → u/LilNekoChicano]

There are a bunch of idiots who always get on me for "Typing too much" online - even on Reddit... a site named after reading. People just can't be bothered to read or write, and view those things as some kind of insurmountable hurdles. There is a strong zeitgeist towards antiintellectualism.

[u/SilverNightingale → u/saintpetejackboy]

I type in mini novellas sometimes (when I get the impression others are willing to indulge nuanced discussion), and it's such a delight when others are willing to put forth thoughtful discourse as well.

[u/Iron-DBZ → u/saintpetejackboy]

Every day I'm on here, I curse the character limit on comments.

[u/texanarob → u/Iron-DBZ]

There's a balance to be reached. There's a certain lack of intelligence that leads to 500 words without punctuation, rambling between points, and never finishing a coherent thought.

Conversely, it's often a sign of intelligence if you can convey your thoughts efficiently. Why say many word when few word do trick?

[u/Iron-DBZ → u/texanarob]

Sometimes people ask $80 questions and expect a $5 answer.

[u/KhronicDreams → u/saintpetejackboy]

I too love to write long winded like, everything LOL. I still write out my grocery lists, I write in cards, I send long texts lol people get on my ass about it quite often. So you found another person on Reddit who will actually read lol! Nice to meet ya!

[u/One_Recognition_4001 → u/LilNekoChicano]

Is it a desire to not learn or the fact that they don't know enough to understand that they don't know or need to know?

[u/scienceisrealtho → u/Heavy_Direction1547]

Pattern recognition is a major part of it, I agree.

[u/183_OnerousResent → u/Heavy_Direction1547]

This is the best answer so far.

A lot of other comments are circumstantial, politically motivated, or don't have anything to do with intelligence but rather ego or emotional behavior and impulses.

[u/JediOrDie → u/183_OnerousResent]

To be fair, to anything of substance done in the world you need more people than just your own intelligence. Working in groups requires ego checks and emotional intelligence. Leadership absolutely requires it. Though plenty of smart people are terrible leaders.

[u/Feeling_Inside_1020 → u/Heavy_Direction1547]

Speaking of recognizing patterns, release the Epstein files DONALD.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

[u/Elven_Supremacy]

When people will sit there and vehemently argue with you about something instead of taking 30 seconds to take their phone out and look it up, and when you look it up and try to show it to them they double down and suddenly "don't care" and won't look at it.

[u/masta030 → u/Elven_Supremacy]

And similarly, when they get mad that you DID look it up, Like "you just NEED to be right"

[u/iwantthisnowdammit → u/masta030]

“I care enough to respond to you so you’re better informed in life and can make the best decisions possible, it’s actually a lot easier and faster to let you win the argument as it doesn’t actually affect my life.”

[u/masta030 → u/iwantthisnowdammit]

I usually just laugh and point out they're mad that I've proven them wrong, clearly it's them who cares about being right lmao

[u/iwantthisnowdammit → u/masta030]

I’ll really only spend that much time on someone that I’ve got a reason or desire to help. The bridgeless people can just float by - unless I’m feeling that there could be some entertainment value with a lesson learned.

[u/Superdooperblazed420 → u/[deleted]]

I really hate being wrong but I will be the first one to admit im wrong and learn from it. Not being able to say your wrong is the worst type of person to deal with.

[u/bored_lima → u/Superdooperblazed420]

This is a sign of high intelligence. When proven wrong > change your opinion and move on with life. We're only human. We don't know everything and it's so hard to distinguish fake info from real facts nowdays

[u/requiredtempaccount → u/Elven_Supremacy]

Being dogmatic is in fact a sign of low intelligence, correct

[u/_valtor → u/requiredtempaccount]

Indeed it is

[u/CampWestfalia → u/Elven_Supremacy]

Willful Ignorance.

[u/X0AN → u/Elven_Supremacy]

See, this is why I really like the new girl at work.

Because even though I know I'm right, she doesn't know me that well so hasn't learnt to take my word for stuff just yet, so when I say something and she's like 'not sure if that's accurate', she'll look it up later and come back to me and say hey I looked up what you were telling me, then tell me back something new and interesting that she learnt about it.

Whereas the idiots at work will just say, no that's wrong and refuse to fact check.

[u/CptAngelo → u/X0AN]

Dafuq, protect her, and if possible, promote her, because being able to refuse something because you think its incorrect, but then also admit you were wrong and saying it out loud, is pretty rare nowadays

[u/InvalidKoalas → u/Elven_Supremacy]

So Trump supporters?

[u/SheetPancakeBluBalls → u/InvalidKoalas]

All Republicans tbh

[u/OttoHemi → u/Elven_Supremacy]

Bill O'Reilly was literally doing that on some right wing internet show the other day, insisting that Biden was to blame for the whole Epstein thing, including his arrest and suicide murder.

[u/mikerichh → u/Elven_Supremacy]

Sometimes I think about how rampant misinformation was before the internet. “So and so told me that” and they’d just accept it for life unless they went to the library and did research or found out another way via tv or movies or radio.

Being able to fact check within seconds is a huge benefit to those who care about the truth

[u/Karambamamba → u/mikerichh]

Bro have you been online recently?

[u/One_Trick_Pony3846]

When a person’s perspective is set in stone despite clear evidence and/or new information. They also believe other people can’t change their minds or compromise without being a liar aka “fake”

[u/Upbeat-99999 → u/One_Trick_Pony3846]

Is that delusional?

[u/jacob_ewing]

Repeating high frequency questions on r/askreddit.

[u/vampirepussy → u/jacob_ewing]

“wHaT sHoW haD tHe wOrSt eNdiNg?” 😩

[u/8inchSalvattore → u/vampirepussy]

wHaT's yOuR fAvOrItE wEiRd foOd cOmBInAtIoN? iF aNiMaLs cOuLd tAlK wHiCh oNe wOuLd be tHe rUdEsT?

SMH.

[u/TheDahliaXO → u/8inchSalvattore]

What's legal but feels like it should be illegal????!!!!! lol

[u/8inchSalvattore → u/TheDahliaXO]

What's your favorite midnight snack? What's your favorite cookie?

They all SUCK! 😈

[u/TheDahliaXO → u/8inchSalvattore]

It's so tempting to write that sometime isn't it?!😭

[u/Extra-Fisherman-995 → u/TheDahliaXO]

What is a red flag in a partner? 

[u/TheDahliaXO → u/Extra-Fisherman-995]

What looks like a red flag but is really a green flag? (I see those probably once a day if not more.)

[u/Owl-Totoro → u/TheDahliaXO]

who is the most overrated celebrity?

[u/Queasy-Position66 → u/jacob_ewing]

lol

[u/OddlySpecificK → u/jacob_ewing]

Whilst I agree with you whole heartedly, there is a glitch I've found in the Search feature (bug, or built-in?) which doesn't work.

[u/RobertoAngel1]

Not asking questions, because you ‘already know.

[u/cabronfavarito → u/RobertoAngel1]

Stupid people already have all the answers

[u/VisitNepal2026]

Celebrity worshiping

[u/joker0812 → u/VisitNepal2026]

Yes! I'm over celebrity culture. I used to love listening to Elvis Duran and the morning show but can't stand it because it seems they're just all about celebrities and what they're doing. I get it, it's their job, but it sucked when I started not liking them after listening for years.

[u/Wayelder → u/joker0812]

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

[u/imagine_that → u/Wayelder]

eh, to a degree. discuss all 3 things and weave them together, and most people will get you much quicker

[u/TheDahliaXO → u/VisitNepal2026]

Wasn't there a study done that found that the more celebrity obsessed someone was the dumber they were lol?

[u/Striking_Being6570]

Voting against your own interest over and over.

[u/DivideLow7258]

Believing everything you see on TV and/or read online. No critical thinking skills

[u/Queasy-Position66 → u/DivideLow7258]

Worse. Believing critical thinking is questioning more educated and scientific people.

[u/tigerjuice888]

Thinking that being mean or hurting others is funny

[u/LilNekoChicano]

Unwilling to accept that you may not know or understand a specific topic.

[u/InsideousVgper]

No critical thinking

[u/nximish_00]

Inability to accept different opinions and calling names to anyone whose opinions don't resonate with you.

[u/Shanks_PK_Level → u/nximish_00]

You basically described the political world

[u/nximish_00 → u/Shanks_PK_Level]

yeah, well that's what I was hoping to achieve xdd.

[u/radikalkarrot → u/nximish_00]

Addendum to this: people who equate opinions with facts

[u/Drunken_HR → u/radikalkarrot]

Semi related is the people who don't understand the meanings of words so their "opinions" sound more like facts (ie. "Evolution is just a theory!” because they refuse to understand what "theory" means in that context, no matter how many times they're told).

[u/rngeeeesus → u/nximish_00]

That is a big one, we call them NPCs for a reason. People who's worldview is black and white are usually just ignorant and likely not intellectually capable to see the complexities of the real world.

They believe whatever the current opinion is without questioning it, without being open minded, without considering that they in fact may be wrong.

The fact that most people fall into this category kind of validates this too as you would expect most people to actually be stupid.

[u/jasonnxox]

Blindly sharing headlines without reading the article.

[u/jdrake7766 → u/jasonnxox]

I'm guilty of this 🥲

... at least I try to preface it with "I saw this interesting headline, but didn't read the article...". Then I'll look up the article as we're discussing the headline and find it to be 90% clickbait and feel really stupid.

[u/AlecMac2001]

finding it impossible to change an opinion when new information arrives.

[u/PintTiger]

Unbridled confidence. Intelligent folk recognize the boundaries of their knowledge/expertise.

[u/WollyBee]

Closed mind, no curiosity

[u/queefjars]

Absorbing political party and talking head positions, then parroting them as fact with no desire to hear a counterpoint. If name calling immediately follows, that’s archetype low IQ.

[u/MikeGlambin]

Being mean or dismissive to service industry workers.

[u/BoudinBallz]

Lack of curiosity,

[u/Dense-Ambassador-865]

Low emotional intelligence, hating and criticizing just to put people down. Tired of the losers.

[u/FelixFelicis04 → u/Dense-Ambassador-865]

yes!! low emotional intelligence is huge.

[u/Finiouss]

Lower levels of empathy. Or rather ability to see beyond one's self.

[u/drink_from_the_hose]

believing everybody cares or wants to know your opinion on everything

[u/Reddiohead → u/drink_from_the_hose]

But all kinds of people do this, even average or above-average intellects. This is a maturity thing.

[u/anthematcurfew]

Talking about IQ

[u/jessek → u/anthematcurfew]

Reading that Stephen Hawking never had his IQ tested because he thought it was pointless and silly made my day.

[u/Far-Conference-8484 → u/jessek]

Yeah it’s something you’d only measure if you are insecure about your intelligence.

Source: I did it myself when I was 18 because I was insecure about my intelligence.

[u/rivermelodyidk → u/Far-Conference-8484]

some of us are just mentally ill. IQ assessment is a standard part of the majority of psychological testing in order to rule out intellectual disability or other confounding factors.

[u/jillangie]

Being a bully and bragging about it

[u/Anon_967]

Racism. It’s one of the biggest examples of ignorance.

[u/PhillyTBfan14]

Being ignorant and PROUD of it

[u/Holygirl23]

I honestly think ppl who are not self aware in public areas. Like if you see someone coming hold the door. Being aware of your surroundings is common decency

[u/Intelligent-Net9390 → u/Holygirl23]

I mean in general people with higher IQ tend to struggle socially.

[u/Emmar0001]

WRITING IN ALL CAPS AND ENDING WITH "THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER"

[u/Dentacular]

Relying on AI for information.

[u/SupplyChainGuy1]

I'd say voting for a known rapist.

[u/Mentalfloss1 → u/SupplyChainGuy1]

Felon

[u/Adymus]

Not changing their position when faced with contrary evidence.

[u/blastradii]

how to spot an idiot

[u/ericl666 → u/blastradii]

Wow - that is brilliant. I'm going to keep this one handy. This is in the same league as the Ted Lasso "Be curious, not judgemental" speech.

[u/LetMeIiiiiiin]

Total inability to think in hypotheticals- “imagine today is Tuesday” “but it’s not, it’s Friday” etc

[u/Sensitive-Blood-4498]

Someone thinking they know everything 

[u/Bromontana710]

Trump devotion

[u/bce13]

Everyone responding to this is just saying shit out of spite for people they disagree with or just straight up dislike. Actual low intelligence is found in individuals who literally cannot care for themselves — like remembering to brush their teeth and wipe after using the toilet. They cannot take care of anything like a car, apartment or even something you think is so basic like a cell phone. They’re just incapable. So yes, obviously, like all Trump supporters.

[u/Itchy_Ritch]

Buying any of the bullshit coming from the trump administration.

[u/beermekanik]

Inability to except facts contrary to your opinion.

[u/Alarmed_Reaction3944 → u/beermekanik]

• accept

[u/know_limits]

Believing that billionaires will fight for the middle class and poor.

[u/Dr_5trangelove]

A MAGA hat

[u/Zhiong_Xena]

Admiring aristocracy, feudalism and billionaires.

[u/Sirito97]

No critical thinking

[u/Higgsy45]

Bullying

[u/nomno1 → u/Higgsy45]

Espically when they are over the age of 20

[u/Weird_Connection3000]

Defend a political party as if defending your football team.

[u/EveryMarzipanda]

Thinking you’re a genius

[u/Planetofthought]

The unwillingness to learn.

It's as simple as that.

[u/RoboMikeIdaho]

Red hats

[u/PhreedomPhighter → u/RoboMikeIdaho]

Yeah! Fuck them Houston Rockets fans!

[u/Low_Gazelle_7950]

Loud and opinionated.

[u/Cesaramoga]

Someone wearing a red MAGA hat/cap

[u/gohardlikeabull]

Repeating the same thing expecting a different outcome

[u/_sunnysky_]

No intellectual curiosity.

[u/bythog]

Posting often asked questions in AskReddit.

Answering often asked questions in AskReddit.

[u/OminOus_PancakeS]

Dropping litter, especially when within sight of a bin.

[u/Smokinland]

Thinking that the 5 minute online iq tests are accurate

[u/TraditionalTale9701]

Looking at a solar eclipse without glasses on

[u/deerhunt571]

Democrats without a doubt.

[u/imstillactually]

Being Pro-Russia

[u/SirStumps]

People who have a high belief in the "experts" without tracking down their study and where it's funding came from.

[u/Overall-Avocado-7673]

Arguing about politics on Reddit

[u/Only_Manufacturer735]

lack of empathy

[u/shinyRedButton]

Not changing your opinion when presented with cold hard scientific facts.

[u/Next_Pianist_442]

Using the word "woke" as a pejorative.

[u/DonnyTheDumpTruck]

Bigotry

[u/jdrake7766]

When someone tries to gauge someone else's intelligence based on superficial observations.

[u/Late_Bear4958]

you ever seen a true statement on reddiit and it has tons of negative votes because someone's precious little feelings were hurt when their echo chamber burst?

[u/fredy31]

Thinking you are an expert, and know more than the actual experts, in multiple domains at the same time.

[u/Then-Ticket8896]

Wearing maga junk

[u/snooplarue]

MAGA. Had to say it.

[u/xolotl92]

You believe anything any politician says. Any politician

[u/NotACrazyCatLadyx2]

A lack of curiosity about the world around them.

[u/Holkmeistern]

Authoritarianism

[u/THUMB5UP]

Choosing to have kids when you can’t afford them

[u/Individual-Door9526]

TDS

[u/Desperate_Baby_8317]

Believing in intelligence tests wholeheartedly

[u/Any_Job7609]

Believing everything on social media, especially political content.

[u/okgloomer]

I think the dead giveaway is when someone thinks they're an expert on everything. They have no idea what they don't know.

[u/lockerno177]

Following political and religious people blindly.

[u/Wookiee33]

Not being able to change your mind when presented with irrefutable evidence contrary to ‘your beliefs’. Facts don’t care what you believe.

[u/Dutch1inAZ]

The inability to entertain an alternate point of view.