How Prepared Are You to Deal With People Who Are Just Not Smart At All?

Let’s say you’re a professor and this term you’re teaching ‘Intro to Astronomy.’ On the first day, you explain what that means…and then three students get up and walk out. They were expecting astrology.

This is the sort of extreme but all-too-common thing that we all face every day beShow More

Let’s say you’re a professor and this term you’re teaching ‘Intro to Astronomy.’ On the first day, you explain what that means…and then three students get up and walk out. They were expecting astrology.

This is the sort of extreme but all-too-common thing that we all face every day because…some people are just really, really not smart. And we all handle it differently.

How good are you at putting up with dummies?

We’ve compiled these real-life situations. Tell us how you’d respond in each of these scenarios and we’ll tell you how prepared you are to face the dumb people of the world.

You may think you already know. And you may think the answers you’re selecting are all pointing to the same obvious outcome. But hang on. Wait till you see your results… There’s more to this than you might think.

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You’re eating out and overhear another patron at this nice, sit-down restaurant tell the server (who’s busting her butt to make everyone happy) that they need a new ice water because this water was...watered down by ice. What would you do?

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  • Make eye contact with your friends at your table to see if they’d heard what just happened.
  • Groan inwardly but otherwise ignore the embarrassingly stupid request.
  • Get the very unclever customer’s attention and tell them to back off and let the server work without additional unnecessarily dumb requests.
  • Tell your friends what you just saw loud enough for the stupid customer to overhear (and hopefully come to their senses).
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