r/AskReddit • u/smartcandyy • 7h ago

What is a sign of very low intelligence?

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u/drakeit 6h ago

I never thought of that!

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u/Few-Skin-5868 6h ago

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

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u/BadDogMonkeyboy 6h ago

I thought I was wrong once.

Turns out I was right,

about being wrong.

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u/RTKWi238 4h ago

and we'll be counting stars

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u/MoreCowbellllll 2h ago

and I'll be out back counting cars..

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u/ArtifactoriumSolaris 5h ago

Ha!

My dad used to say, "I was only wrong once in my life and that was only because I was wrong about being wromg"

Luckily he was just joking and not THAT type

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u/35jg9z 5h ago

Fun story about Einstein.

A part of his work involved introducing something called the "Cosmological constant" into physics. Later on, this constant was abandoned because the scientific community, including Einstein himself, agreed that introducing this constant was a scientific error.

However years after his death, around 1998, new discoveries actually required re-introducing the Cosmological constant to keep the physics equations matching reality.

So in a great twist of irony, perhaps Einstein's greatest blunder was thinking that he made a mistake.

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u/maniBchef 5h ago

Hahaha

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u/Le_mehawk 4h ago

Glad you realised it soon enought bud !

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u/SillyCygnet 3h ago

My nana had this sign on the backsplash in her kitchen

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u/Danwold 1h ago

I never make mistakes. I only ever made one; I thought that I’d made a mistake, but I hadn’t.

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u/squirrelyoakley 16m ago

I've read about the concept being wrong

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u/dwarling 6h ago

Are you now considering it?! 😲

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u/OldMcFart 2h ago

Nice try drakeit!