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One of the things it took me getting a little older to understand is that 1. As smart as we maybe are, we aren't probably as smart as we think we are. 2. Because people don't do things the way we think about things doesn't make them dumb.

I can assure you there are Republicans who think you are stupid for your political beliefs that actually are way smarter than you. I can assure you there are religious people who believe in a God you think are fake that are way smarter than you. I can assure you there are antivax people out there that are way smarter than you.

The thing about intelligence is that your minds work different and just because you may specifically make a smarter decision and them a dumber decision at a time doesn't make you a smarter person or them a dumber person. Or as moogle pointed out above mean they came to what you deem as a dumber decision by the means you attribute to them.

Let's say you are actually slightly above average in intelligence. Then that means like 5 billion people in the world are less intelligent than you or so. And, then, depending on your personality, you may even contribute how many as smart or smarter than you are being less intelligent than you as well. Hey why not. Thus, there is a lot of people to deem dumb.

And, even then a smart person doesn't have to make every right decision also. Which of course brings you back to just deeming they are all dumb anyways.

The point is. You seem to think intelligence is measured by making every decision you personally think is smart and them being dumb if they didn't make it. It's a poor measure of intelligence tbqh.