Mine is the volume of their voice. If all that they can do is just talk too loudly with no reason for it and don’t control the volume of their voice. That to me is a sign that you’re a stupid fuck. Because people think the louder they are, the more righteous and attention seeking they are. Than it is to just listen, digest and respond accordingly to anyone talking around you.
Not learning and adapting, never admitting they’re wrong when they actually do realise they are wrong.
Managers tend to not like me.
Refusing to learn is the most frustrating things. Working computer repair this would be the surefire way that 1) I was not going to like you and 2) you were going to be a moron who will give me a lot of money of the years.
“I lost my Gmail password.”
“Sure let me show you how to reset it”
“NO. JUST DO IT”
“sigh, that’ll be $30.”
I would always try to teach people how to do things. Refusing to learn at all though, well, I’ve always wondered if there’s a link to refusing to learn anything new and dementia
I have a major problem!!! It is causing me pain and I cannot work because of this issue!!!
Sure let me fix it…
No!! Not now! Come back later!
So, it isn’t that big an issue?
No!!! It is so big I will talk to your boss about how you are not helping and why it is causing me issues!!!
——— yeah had this conversation more than once. Sigh
I feel you.
Never admitting you’re wrong is a big one. Admitting you’re wrong allows you to grow as a person.
People who believe in the bible as a historic document.
Very frustrating, especially when the book itself has a lot of fairly direct “this is symbolism/allegory/not to be interpreted literally” statements within.
Can you share some?
Bigotry
It isn’t necessarily about intelligence, since stupid is as stupid does.
I tend to call that willful ignorance. It’s knowing that there are other ways of thinking, but refusing to even consider them. Which is stupid, dumber than dammit, and/or moronic. I’ve known some damn intelligent people that are stupid by virtue of not using their brain.
Be aware though, not everyone can control their volume. I don’t doubt you were aware of that, but it’s not so rare a thing as to not be worth mentioning. There’s also others that have trouble controlling volume.
Again, I don’t doubt you meant the folks that can control their volume, and do so without difficulty, just adding to things.
Not keeping a constant speed when driving on the highway. Just pick a speed and drive.
If you don’t have cruise control and keep your foot steady, your speed will vary naturally with the road.
Above everything, lack of curiosity. If someone is uncurious, it’s a big red flag to me.
I was thinking the same thing. The not wanting to know more is a really big red flag for me.
This is the main thing I come up with because curiosity is the one thing that keeps ignorance from being a temporary state.
Unfortunately extremely common
Conservative politics, as Mill points out, stupid people are attracted to it. Many of them will plant a sign on their lawn to let you know.
"I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. . - John Stuart Mill
Inability to see things from different perspectives. Assuming any perspective you talk about is your own personal belief.
Anyone who refuses to change for any reason.
I will counter that the definition of intelligence is needed. Yours OP seems to be emo intelligence, maybe social intelligence. One can be very intelligent in other areas while not within these.
My quality would be a person’s ability to abstract and understand subjects through inference and intuition; to see all the layers of bigger pictures and the uncertainty of truth when contextualized.
In many ways, I fail at my own stupid, but it is a striving in life. After all, what use are achievable goals.
Stupid is subjective, circumstantial, and non binary.
When they don’t use their indicator signal.
Some people aren’t self monitors. A lot of stupid/ignorant people are loud, but being loud can also be lack of awareness of their volume, hearing deficit, or cultural
My brother has tinnitus and sometimes doesn’t realize his voice is really loud.
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Religion of any type.
I’m less certain. Lots of intelligent people can get caught up in such things. Religion depends also on upbringing and cultural background.
This. One of the smartest guys I know, running a worldwide software business, is religious. Faith does not equal stupid.
Agreed, faith can often be a sense of comfort, not necessarily gullibility.
Blanket elitism about atheism, or rather blatant anti-theism, is one of mine.
Maybe they’re hard of hearing and don’t know.
I have really bad social anxiety and will either speak too quiet or too loudly when i have to talk to somebody, there’s other reasons someone might speak too loud.
You talkin shit about Ranger Carl?
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