" Their tone and pronunciation change , and it ’s almost like they ’re enounce a word ( or Bible ) that they just got from someone else . "
While it’s totally okay not to be the smartest person in the room, some people have a really hard time admitting when they’re not. So when Reddit userpotato_chinasked: “What is a fake sign of intelligence?” over 2,000 people provided some really strong opinions on the matter. Here’s what they said below.
1.“Speaking with confidence… and zero substance.”
2.“Answering everything with certainty. The smartest people I’ve ever known all seemed to listen instead of speak, had nothing to prove, and probably were knowledgeable enough to know they didn’t know everything.”
— learn2cook
" This . masses who are n’t willing to heed or are closed off to learning because they ‘ have sex already ’ is probably the biggest red pin for me .
— rakeisha1
3.“Taking a Facebook IQ test.”
4.“Smart people don’t have to tell you they’re smart, rich people don’t have to say how rich they are, and tough people don’t have to tell you they’re tough.”
— Verlin_Wayne
" One of my favored sayings is ' maleness moves in silence , ' but you could sub many noun in there . "
— frityn
5.“People who boast about people skills but lack empathy.”
6.“Mocking others to feel superior.”
— elawithstars
" There ’s for sure some correlation here , but this is mostly about insecurity . Secure people do n’t need to constantly demonstrate to themselves or others by any substance that they are valuable . But you ’re right that it ’s more of a challenge to grow up secure if you ’re of less than average intelligence operation in a society that praises intelligence service . "
— goodtalk
7.“Tries too hard to use big words, especially when it’s not necessary to use them. True smart people absolutely know all the big words, but they also know how to communicate. They won’t spit out a big word unless it’s the only word to describe something.”
8.“When someone can recite definitions to you but doesn’t actually understand what they’re saying to you.”
— virgil_belmont
" That is a key departure between cognition and intelligence . you may be intimate dozens of thing , but that does n’t entail you understand them . How you interpret and apply that cognition is intelligence . "
— IttyRazz
9.“Wanting to debate people all the time.”
10.“The ability to remember and regurgitate information.‘Is that your thing, you come into a bar and read some obscure passage, then you pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some girls, embarrass my friend?'” -Will Hunting."
— teohsi
11.“Truly smart people love sharing and teaching others what they learn. If someone learns something and actively gate-keep it, they aren’t intelligent.”
12.“Never saying, ‘I don’t know.'”
— LizardPossum
" ' I do n’t know ' are the bully words in the language , I believe . My Dad could never say them and often made shit up to embrace for his lack of knowledge , which made me look like an ass more than once when I would tell someone confidently what he had order me . "
— Agreeable_Average722
13.“Wealth. It’s too commonly seen as the end all be all. I’ve literally seen people’s outlook on life or politics shut down with the fact they aren’t as rich as the reasoning they are wrong.”
