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People in the top 25% are not wasting their time posting comments to Reddit et al.

People who _think_ they are in the top 25%, sure.




r/AskHistorians and Twitter OSINT beg to differ. If you think those aren't the opinions of top 5% thinkers (only most informed out of 20 people, 1/2 are <100 IQ), then I question if you've met 40 average citizens before...


People on this site are much more likely to be in the top 50%. Telling someone to shut up if they're not arbitrarily qualified is much more effective on people in the top quartile than the bottom one. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect




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