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[–] Sagifurius@lemm.ee 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Scientits have discovered more intelligent people tend to make better decisions

[–] Damage@feddit.it 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Scientits seem like an interesting subject

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

About half of all people are unsurprised and the other half believe the study is propaganda.

Democracy doesn’t work thanks to how many idiots there are and the extremely intelligent and selfish oligarchs who mislead the idiots.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Extremely greedy yes, I wouldn't call them extremely intelligent though. It doesn't take a lot to reign in a bunch of room temperature IQ.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 11 points 2 years ago

The great cognitive abilities needed to understand "apes together strong"

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There's probably a correlation with people who believe things written on the side of a bus too.

Except the route number, that's probably true.

[–] Treczoks@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apart from the scheduled arrival times, they are almost never true ;-)

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago

They're pretty good where I live and commute... but that's a still, say, 5 minutes after scheduled.

Driving is more variable than that though.

[–] lorez@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Better Call Saul!

[–] Szymon@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Weaponization of stupidity.