They talk about being an alpha male.

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Alpha men are like Alpha software - not ready for public release, unstable and full of errors.

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Only use one source of news and believe it fully instead of looking across a number of different sources.

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And points of view.

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Using complex words without fully grasping what they mean. I do it sometimes, it makes me sound photosynthesis.

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Yeah sometimes I masturbate difficult words into my sentences without knowing what they mean

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Often wrong but never in doubt.

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I've noticed that people who are ignorant are often the most confident in their beliefs!

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Kinda an oddly specific one, but people who brag about doing dangerous things and thinking they have the biggest c*ck in the world for it.

I had a coworker once who was bragging about the fact that he was going over 100 on the freeway that morning and my manager looks at him and says “you were going over 100 in your s**t car with your pregnant girlfriend?”

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I assume miles? So 160kph? That's the average speed here in Germany though. Maybe 150. But that's not a brag, it's allowed here

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Instead of having a good point in an argument, they call you names and insult you.

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Or downvote you without comment.

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Absolute insistence that scientists are all lying because they are in the bag of government grants while Ignoring the three scientists who are Making three times money shilling for corporations.

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Claiming world wide conspiracles in health and science is a big one. It's also dangerous. Reality is there are millions of scientists and doctors combined across the globe. The idea that they would by a factor of hundreds of thousands be complicit in some diabolical plot just doesn't work.

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Thinking that they know how everything works. Typically, from my own experience, the smarter someone is the more they admit just how little they actually know.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

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No self awareness.

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Not being able to learn from mistakes. There’s a Chinese proverb that says that…

Smart people learn from their mistakes, but the really wise ones learn from other’s mistakes. When it comes to fools, sadly they (edit typo) do NOT learn from anyone’s mistakes.

As long as you can learn from mistakes, you are at least half as more smart than you really need to be to succeed in life…

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I liked this sentiment until: "half as more smart". Then it just kinda blew up my brain (maybe 'cause it's 3am for me)... Just trying to erase the vision "smarts" as a solid, quantitative thing spilling out of my skull...

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The inability/unwillingness to try understand someone else's point of view, and how their personal experiences contribute to that view. It doesn't mean you have to accept it, or agree with it, just try understand it.

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I will say though, I will not entertain 'points of view' that limit human rights and dignity. I don't entertain bigots.

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Laughing or mocking people for asking dumb questions.

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Thete are no dumb questions when someone truly desires to learn.

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I feel like people who ride motorcycles without wearing at least a helmet have low intelligence.

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Well, it's one way to achieve an intellectual disability.

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Sexism, racism, ableism.

And, even worse: The toxic assumption they have all the awareness they need and could never learn to do better.

A lack of awareness of your own privilege.

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Almost all insults are thinly veiled outlets for insecurity.

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Hate people that don’t look/act/think like them, people who are cruel. Greatest telltale signs. People with low intelligence tend to show distain towards things they don’t understand, or that don’t fit their world view.

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It's a defensive mechanism to obfuscate any attempt at discovering their actual ignorance.

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They don't just not take the time to listen to other opinions, they actively shoot them down.

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A lot of debates you see online are going to be people trying to yell over one another. Most of the time, people pick apart grammatical errors or things that they didn't phrase right and use it as the base of their whole argument.

An intellectual debate shouldn't include yelling. Hear another person out before disagreeing with them.

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I know people that will harass others for weeks on end for not agreeing with their message of "peace and love" - which, may I add, is usually some BS that is far from being peaceful or loving

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When they never questioned the beliefs they grew up with.

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How DARE you defile the name of the one true God. The flying spaghetti monster! What do you think the "Strings" in String Theory are? That's right ya muggles, spaghetti!

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Not trying to figure something out before they ask for help/ no desire to learn.

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For a mathematician, fully agree, for a doctor absolutely not 😬

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They have strong opinions about topics they don't really even understand the basics of.

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Back in the 80s when people could canvas folks at the airport I got off my flight and passed a table where a lady was saying radiation was bad. (basically they were against nuclear power). I worked in nuclear power so I stopped long enough to ask her what kind of radiation she was talking about. She had zero clue. While I recognize there can be valid concerns, she literally knew nothing about radiation or even that there were different kinds. If you are going to try to influence people, at least learn the basics of what you are talking about.

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Not being able to distinguish facts from opinions.

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Repeating rhetoric, you have heard, but not being able to actually explain what it means.

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Casual littering is one that gets me.

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This one is the worst!

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No critical thought. I knew a lady who got suspicious of the donkey charity adverts on TV because "if they're helping new donkeys, why are they still showing the old ones."

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Because the old ones were the ones that got helped, while the new donkeys are still being helped…! *facepalm*

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They see the world in black and white. There is no nuance. No understanding of the other side of anything. There is only right and wrong; and conveniently they are alway on the side of ‘right.’.

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My mom has that "black and white" mantra too. I just can't convince her otherwise.

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They tell you about the time they scored 450 in an online IQ test.

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Over my years of the Early Internet, it was always easy to spot to a pseudo-intellectual by how readily they dropped 200 or close to 200 as their score. Because they didn't know that's a ludicrous score to lie about.

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"Person, woman, man, camera, TV"

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They have a hard time understanding how a concept in one context could apply to another context.

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This is the definition of intelligence in my opinion

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They base their personality on political matters.

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This needs to be much, much higher.

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They don’t know the difference between their there they’re.

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And furthermore, to and too are two different words.

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They get angry at seatbelt laws.

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Celebrity worship i.e. the Kardashians.

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The fact that OP had to mention the celebrities they personally hate the most earns a half-point deduction.

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They think they're always right. Not curious / open to learning.

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Not being willing to change or improve because "that's just the way I am and will always be"

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Lack of curiosity.

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They can't tell the difference between arguing and engaging in constructive discussion. Also they get angry when you make them work there brain.

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Repeating conspiracies they have not really researched. Because as someone that has, it's like the writer of most of them didn't think the logic of it to fill completion, so you run into a story with no purpose, ending, motive, or even plot. How a ton of them have to be believed in total isolation but this specifically they are willing to give the benefit of the doubt, not the reasonable or rational and educated argument.

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What gets me is how they claim they can spot government conspiracies/schemes/plots or whatever you want to call it and so many people will believe them. Like, we know our collective governments are up to something, that's a given. But, if it's something the government don't want you to know, you're not gonna find out.

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Well I'm not sure you can reliably guage intelligence by just looking at behaviour, but people who try to get on the train while others are getting off score pretty f**king high in my book.

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Same with lifts.

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Not being able to put yourself in the other persons shoes and and understand why they may feel the way they do about the situation.

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I do this sometimes. I'm trying to get better.

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Inability to process hypotheticals and the IF scenario. That's really the main development people have gone through intellectually over the latest handful of generations. We can entertain, not just what is, but what might be or what could've been. It helps us think in abstract ways that allows us to for example categorize information which is immensele useful in the types of tasks a modern society requires. It helps us with basic skills like arithmetic ("IF you have 5 apples and then remove two how ma--" "But I don't have 5 apples though"). One of the most important abilities it gives us is the ability to put ourselves in someone else's place ("How would you feel IF you were treated the way you treat others?" "I'm not, though").

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It means reflection and it's the final boss of intelligence. Very difficult to master and no, I haven't either. But being able to learn on reflection alone is a virtue

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Their entire personality is based off trendy identities based off Tiktok, Tumblr or Twitter.

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They act like they are smarter than anyone else. They really believe they are. Flat out. No matter the education they have, they know more about any subject you bring up.

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A proper education - or even life experience - helps you to grasp how profoundly ignorant you are.

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Telling you how smart they are.

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Where they went to university coming up in every single conversation. 🙄

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Thinking being louder in an argument means you are winning.

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When they make a claim and you ask for sources to how they reached that conclusion and they just keep saying look it up yourself the information is out there.

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OMG this! Don't make BS claims and then not back that s**t up. Even if it doesn't add up in the end or someone flags bad research or falsified data, at least admit you were wrong.

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People who "don't get" art or literature. *"It's just a picture/statue." "Reading is lame."*.

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Alternatively, people who pretentiously seek meaning in something that isn't there. I'm saying it: ULYSSES SUCKS DONKEY C**K

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If you go around assessing people's intelligence as if it was some videogame stat, you should be your own first suspect.

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No opinions, they simply absorb others opinions and way of thinking without context and make it their own, if you ask them why, they'll reply with idk.

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They pay for twitter.

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They are on Twitter*

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They fall for simple scams.

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He said he was a PRINCE!

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Believers of starsign mumbo jumbo.

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I will never understand these guys.

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Posting f**king arithmetic problems with basic order of operations s**t and claiming “oNlY gENiuSeS cAn sOLvE tHiS”

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The folks doing the original posts are not dumb, just the folks rushing in to correct them. It's a ploy to get comments and activity on an account and people continue to fall for it.

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People using talking points to sound smart, but miss the topic entirely.

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Ah yes, of course! That’s just classic *quantum recursion bias.* It’s when the photons in your brain resonate at a suboptimal frequency due to an overabundance of carbonated beverages, causing you to misalign your conversational vectors. Happens all the time. You’ll want to recalibrate with at least three memes and a Wikipedia deep dive on the mating habits of jellyfish to fix it. Trust me, I’m basically a neuroscientist.

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