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If you ask me, this list could be pretty stinking long – way longer than the opposite, which would be people who are totally smart even though we think that they’re not.
That said, it could be pretty interesting to read and find out if a, we agree on who people think are smart and b, whether or not they’re smart at all.
These 15 people have some pretty interesting nominations, so check them out and see what you think!
15. Down the wormhole.
Mayim Biyalik.
She loves to flaunt she’s a neuroscientist but hasn’t done any research in years. And she’s out there hocking a useless supplement called Prevagen that’s literal garbage.
Plus she went down an anti-vax wormhole for years.
She’s out of it now, but that was weird. For someone who says she had a background in science, she seemed to reject any scientific objectivity to vaccines.
14. Inept humans.
Engineers. I am one, I work with a lot of them, most are some of the most inept humans I’ve ever had the misfortune to know.
They’re not qualified to do or think about anything other than the very specific thing they’re trained to do, and yet they all think they’re qualified to do any job.
13. The male Gwyneth Paltrow.
Joe Rogan.
My boyfriend thinks the man walks on water despite him being the dude bro version of Gwyneth Paltrow…
12. Accidentally?
My dad is an engineer and the thing that I say about him is “he is the smartest man I know but he’s so dumb”.
He is so smart yet he also accidentally drank laundry detergent.
Engineers are a certain breed of people for sure.
11. It’s a sliding scale.
I feel like most YouTubers that people worship aren’t smart, just smarter than their viewers which isn’t saying much.
They have their followers and tell them what they want to hear.
That’s their bottom line and it’s a business.
Wonder when people will start to catch on.
10. Ain’t that the truth.
Themselves!
People always overestimate their own intelligence and it’s annoying!
I think I read somewhere or heard it at least, and not sure if this is actual science, that dumb people tend to really overestimate or overplay their intelligence while smart people tend to underestimate or downplay their own
9. Not Mr. Krabs!
Sponge bob thinks mr Krabs is brilliant.
He did build the restaurant from the ground up and is always getting over on plankton.
8. Insufferably arrogant.
Neil Degrasse Tyson.
While he’s an expert in his field, he has a tendency to over-extend himself and comment on areas in which he is not an expert.
Over a decade ago, I saw him speak at my college, and I was stunned at how many things he said that were factually inaccurate. Being an astrophysicist does not make you an expert in, say, biology, and he said several things that were wrong or misinformed. And he said them with total confidence.
I don’t remember the specifics, but I went there as a young biology major and I remember the next day in my embryology class, everyone was like, “Hey, why did Neil Degrasse Tyson say a bunch of blatantly wrong stuff about biology and evolution? Did we misinterpret it somehow or did he just seem to not know what the hell he was talking about?”
In years since, he’s said things on Twitter that were later disproven, and he never seems to have the humility to say, “That’s outside my field of expertise and I can’t comment on it, let me refer to another expert.”
Part of being smart is knowing that you don’t know everything, and I find Neil Degrasse Tyson to be insufferably arrogant.
7. He had good ideas.
Steve Jobs.
He didn’t really do much besides just tell smart people to bring his ideas to fruition.
I can’t remember which comedian does a bit on it but its spot on.
He also never showered and died prematurely because he thought fruit could cure cancer.
Dude was an a$$.
6. A rude awakening.
My middle school teachers. I grew to find them on social media sharing fake news, conspiracy theories, and religious and political memes laced with typos.
It was a rude awakening.
5. He has flaws.
I’ll place my bet on Jeff Bezos.
There is a book called The Everything Store. He tells this story about when they first started Amazon in a garage.
“I didn’t have packing tables,”. “I said to one of the software engineers who was packing alongside me, ‘You know what we should do? We should get knee pads.’ And he looked at me like I was the dumbest guy he had ever seen in his life, and he said ‘Jeff, we should get packing tables.'”
He was successful pre Amazon and even when they were a billion dollar company, he knew the chance of failure was still high, this is something a lot of entrepreneurs ignore. Everyone has flaws, he’s very aware of his.
4. Criminal masterminds.
Criminal Masterminds are not as smart as many people think. Majority of the hardcore criminals did one stupid thing that got them caught.
Timothy Mcveigh, drove without a license plate after the Oklahoma city bombing, and admitted that he had a loaded gun, and was arrested for that, and that’s how Timothy Mcveigh was caught.
One of the 1993 wtc attackers, Mohammed Salameh, rented a truck using his own name, and tried to get a $400 deposit back after claiming that his truck was stolen(Being too much of a cheapskate lol), but the Fbi had found the axle of the truck after the bombing, and it was registered in Mohammeds name. When Mohammed went to the Ryder store to get the deposit, the denied him and he was arrested on the spot.
Shoe Bomber Richard Reid failed to ignite his shoe, because of perspiration and sweat from wearing it for so long.
Times square bomber Fasial Shazhad, incorrectly wired the bomb, so instead of exploding, it didn’t explode but instead smoke came out of it. He almost got away, but the FBI found his getaway car with a loaded weapon in it, and the car registered to him, and the flight had to taxi back to the gate and he was arrested.
Albert Bailey, called a bank ahead of time to demand 100k. Was arrested the next day.
Ted Bundy was pulled over for erratic driving, and police found out that the car was stolen, and was arrested and then they found out that he was the one killing women.
One man tried to carjack someone, but couldn’t drive stick shift.
Criminals are some of the dumbest people alive.
3. *goes to Google*
Most celebrities since they have the Halo bias going for them.
2. Seconded.
Dax Shepard!
I feel like he should be the mascot for the “iamverysmart” subreddit.
1. A bold statement.
Oprah.
She’s wrong about almost everything and everyone.
I mean, some of these are no brainers. Others really made me think, though.
Who would you nominate to this list? Drop your names in the comments!
