I was thinking about this. I went to university, and I worked in tech for decades. I met many assholes but I didn’t meet anyone that would fit on the left half of the bell curve (less than 100 iq).
Since I’ve been living in that bubble my entire life, I’m curious of your stories. Have you met someone who was actually quite dumb (not just having opinions you don’t agree with) and do you have an example situation you remember you can share?
Hopefully this becomes more funny than hateful since intelligence is not the value of a person, but it can be funny to read the stories.
I don’t believe in dumb people. Measured intelligence is a pretty useless concept that does more harm than good.
I think everyone spends their cognitive capacity, what they choose to care about and pay attention to in different ways, and then we as a society place more value on those qualities that are deemed useful from a perspective of productivity - and label those ‘high intelligence’.
The overall variance between healthy (non-brain damaged) human adults in ‘mental processing power’ for lack of a better term seems negligible to me though. Some people just use theirs to advance quantum physics, while others use it to organize their garden or draw Sonic the Hedgehog porn.