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How to Know You’re Dealing with Someone Really Unintelligent
It still has nothing to do with anyone’s religion or politics.
On Oct. 28 I published “How to Know You’re Dealing with Someone Really Intelligent.” It strikes me that a guide to just the opposite might be useful. How do you spot someone of low intelligence, perhaps to avoid them because I hear that if you’re not careful, low intelligence can be catching.
1. Walk into their home or apartment and the most prominent object is the big screen TV. It’s always on, always blaring. My rule of thumb is, the bigger the screen and the louder the volume, the lower the IQ of its owner.
2. The truly unintelligent can’t put their phones down for five minutes. They’re apt to run straight into you on a sidewalk because their attention is on their phones. There are even Darwin-awards level cases of the unintelligent walking into traffic, or walking off cliffs and getting themselves killed.
3. They mindlessly inconvenience others in myriad small ways, whether it’s leaving a shopping cart in the middle of a parking spot where it blocks the path of an incoming vehicle, or by blocking a store aisle with their cart. They lack situational awareness.
