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An excerpt from YourTango -
8 Subtle Traits Of People Who Have A Low IQ
People are intelligent in their own ways, but someone who exhibits these subtle traits has a low IQ.
By Alexandra Blogier
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Intelligence can be defined as a person’s general mental abilities to reason, solve problems, and learn. Someone's level of intelligence includes their cognitive abilities, like perception, language, planning, and memory.
There's a difference between being book-smart and street-smart, yet people with low intelligence may struggle with both. Because reasoning, learning, and solving problems are essential aspects of intelligence, someone with low intelligence will have difficulty mastering those areas.
Here are 8 subtle traits of people who have a low IQ
1. They're not very curious
People with low IQs show little interest in learning new things or digging deeper into topics they already understand. They're content to have a shallow conceptualization of issues, without thinking about the underlying causes.
They also tend to have smaller vocabularies and lower intellectual curiosity overall. They don't think outside of their own worldview, and have a limited ability to see other people's perspectives, which can make them fairly close-minded.
The Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania defines open-mindedness as the "willingness to search actively for evidence against one's favored beliefs, plans, or goals, and to weigh such evidence fairly when it is available." They define the opposite of open-mindedness as "the myside bias," in which people search and evaluate evidence in ways that favor their initial belief systems.
The Center notes that people who are open-minded score higher on tests that measure cognitive ability, which supports the association between lower intelligence and closed-mindedness.
2. They struggle to adapt to new situations
Oftentimes, people with low IQs have a hard time in new environments. They can have trouble with planning and problem-solving, which translates into difficulty getting used to new places or new roles.
While someone with a low IQ might have skills that look good on paper, they're often challenged by being thrown into real life situations, and don't have the mental capacity to find a way out.
3. They don't know what they don't know
People who have low IQs might think they're actually very intelligent, which is called the Dunning-Kruger effect. According to the Dunning-Kruger effect, people who actually know very little on a certain topic assume they're very knowledgeable about it.
Psychologist David Dunning wrote that "The scope of people's ignorance is often invisible to them." He referred to that lack of understanding of one's own mental limitations as "meta-ignorance," or being ignorant of "the multitude of ways they demonstrate gaps in knowledge."
Whereas high intelligence performers openly recognize what they don't know, people with low intelligence go the opposite route. They lack intellectual humility, which means they don't acknowledge that they struggle to understand certain topics. This creates a level of low-self awareness and, oftentimes, an inflated sense of self or ego.
Sesame Street Was Onto Trump YEARS Ago
@savvy_from_maine I know why Christian nationalists hate Sesame Street… The satire we all needed. #savvyfrommaine #sesamestreet #donaldgrump #cult45 #oscarthegrouch #foryou #project2025 #donaldtrump #trump #satire ♬ original sound - Savvy from Maine 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Teacher Has Found Clever Way of Teaching Art
Art Instructor Draws Clever Images With His Finger on the Windows of Dirty Cars
By Lori Dorn
Kundan Chowdhury of the Chandan Art Academy in Bhadreswar, Hooly in West Bengal, India, draws clever and teachable art with his finger on the windows of dirty cars. He starts with very simple shapes and then shows how the shapes connect to make the whole as a sum of its parts.
British Writer Describes Trump
From the London Daily -
Copied in its entirety from Nate White's article as found in the London Daily - It is too good to cherry-pick - Faye
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British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read
Nate White
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
#Donald Trump
https://londondaily.com/british-writer-pens-the-best-description-of-trump-i-ve-read?sfnsn=mo
Where Folks Cuss a Lot
An excerpt from Readers' Digest -
This State’s Residents Curse the Most (Hint: It’s Not New York!)
By Kiersten Hickman
Well, dang. This state sure loves a good cussing.
In some cases, swearing makes you feel better. No, really! There’s science behind it. Research shows that profanity can help keep your emotions in check and positively correlates with honesty. It can even reduce your perception of pain. Pardon our French, but cursing comes in handy, gosh darn it!
So if you can’t help but swear, well, that’s not such a bad thing. Still, swearing isn’t for everyone. In fact, a new survey shows that residents of some states use more profanity than others.
To find out which U.S. state is the “sweariest” of them all, WordTips analyzed 1.7 million English-language geotagged posts on the social platform X (formally Twitter) and used a database of 1,600 profanities to uncover the most and least foul-mouthed places. Read on to find out which states’ residents curse the most and which are most likely to refrain from using profanity.
What other states round out the top five?
Along with Maryland, here are the states that tend to use the most curse words online (plus their average number of curse-word-laden posts):
Maryland (66.3 posts on average)
Louisiana (61.7 posts on average)
Georgia (57.4 posts on average)
Virginia (47.6 posts on average)
Ohio (47.3 posts on average)
After Ohio, many other states averaged in the 45-post range, including Mississippi (45.9), Pennsylvania (45.7), New Jersey (45.5), Nevada (45.5), Michigan (45.3) and Illinois (45).
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