Have you met more stupid people in your life than intelligent people?

Question

What do you think the reason is?

Answer 1

YES!! The way that they are brought up these days.

Answer 2

Well, on topic, I would say the reason would've been because maybe "stupid" people discern less, and so take less time choosing who they will... ahem... "mingle" with, and hence more offspring.

...but I would actually rather say that I've met more "unreasonable" and "unpredictable" people in life, than consistent and fair people. Probably why I have no friends and have never been in a romantic relationship. Yes, I'm having a difficult time relating to human beings, although I am one through and through.

Answer 3

The human development in the Occident is measured in degrees. The intellectual elite have agreed that we have achieved a maximum 33 out of a possible 360 degrees. Scientists affirm that we use 10/ of our wisdom potential.
I hope that answers your question.

By the way, King Solomon, one of the wisest that ever lived, he said "The fear (pursuit of God's wisdom and knowledge) of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."

Boaz

Answer 4

I certainly have. By definition, half the population has an IQ no higher than 100.

Answer 5

The fact that you aren't as intelligent as I am doesn't make you stupid. Cut yourself some slack! Lol

Answer 6

Everyone is smart in their own way,but I have defiantly met a few people who made me feel super smart.

Answer 7

50/50
i`ve met a lot of stupid people that thought they were smart

Answer 8

more stupid people, i know the reason, its called not smart
people are not smart

Answer 9

I have had my IQ tested numerous times just as a matter of curiosity and the score is always between 114 and 128. This means I am more intelligent than at least 75 - 90% of people out there. I have a difficult time believing in this because I really can't conceive that this is true, so I thought the tests were flawed. So I started looking up the definition of IQ and the following is what I found - pretty scary!:

To gain a clearer perspective regarding what this means in terms of our daily contacts with people, let's take a trip down to a local Walmart. Let's suppose we're visiting the only Walmart in a small, rural town, so that neighborhood inhomogeneities don't affect the cohort of shoppers we'll find at the store. That way, we'll be seeing a nearly random cross-section of the public on our trip.
OK. Here we are at Walmart. I can already see quite a few people out here in the parking lot.
Let's suppose that we're going to see 100 other customers while we're here shopping, and then consider their breakdown by IQ. On the basis of the law of averages, we'd expect to see one person here with an IQ below 64! There'd be someone else with an IQ between 64 and 68. There should be 3 more with IQs between 69 and 75. In other words, if this is a random crowd, 1 out of 20 people we're going to meet will have IQs below 75, and will be seriously retarded! (I guess we're lucky the world works as well as it does.) Keep your eyes peeled. See if you can spot 'em. About 1 out of 10 people we'll walk past here at Walmart has an IQ below 80, or about 10 of the 100 people who cross our paths here in the store! Hey, look! Does she look kind of sagaciously-challenged to you? One out of 5, or 20 of the 100 people we're seeing have IQs below 87, with about 1 in 10 in the 80 to 87 IQ range. Half the crowd, or 50 out of the 100, has below-average intelligence! And of course, the other half has above-average intelligence. Twenty of them (1 out of 5) have IQs above 113. Ten of them, or 1 in 10, have IQs above 120. Five of them have IQs above 125, and have the potential to become university professors with Ph. D's. Two of them have IQs of 132 or above, and are potential members of Mensa. One of them has an IQ above 136.
Did you spot them? I saw one or two possible candidates, but I suppose we'd better not walk up and say,
"Pardon me, ma'am. You look mentally challenged. Are you?"
She might hit us with her purse.
If we spent time at a large urban mall, we might rub elbows with 1,000 shoppers. In an average, unenriched setting, where we saw 1,000 other shoppers at Christmas-time, IQs might typically be expected to range between 50 and 150. In a blue-stocking suburb like Norcross or Corte Madera, we might expect to find one or more folk with IQs above 150, and perhaps, an individual or two with an IQ above 160. This is a huge range of IQs.
I think that the range of intellects that we walk past in the world is awesome. The span between top and bottom among 100 people chosen at random would be about 75 points of deviation IQ, or more than 80 points of ratio IQ. And we've been walking past them every day.
This isn't the whole story. It's mentioned below that even on culture-fair tests, the average IQ of our African-American population falls about one standard deviation below those of the other components of our population. This means that 1 out of 10 African-Americans has an IQ below 59, and only about 2 Africans in 1,000 can qualify for Mensa. So most probably, on our trip to Walmart, we're going see an African-American with an IQ of 60 or below (mental age of 10).
Until I wrote this up this afternoon, I had never stopped to think just what intellectual diversity awaits us at our local shopping centers. Half the people we meet in cars on the road have below-average intelligence, and 1 in 20 must be seriously retarded, with a mental age of 12 or below. Ouch! I think I'll ride my bike on back streets to the store.

Answer 10

yes, it's called ignorance