Are people getting more stupid?

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I mean why on earth would you think it was a good idea to eat laundry detergent.

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Kept hearing jokes about people doing it but honestly thought no one would be stupid enough to....yet there they are. In droves

And the Darwin Award goes tooooooo....

More stupider *

I joke but yeah people are unbelievable at times

Odd isn’t it.

No, not more stupid. I think it's that social media and pointless 'news' websites give a voice to all kinds of silliness that would have previously happened in private.

Idiocracy!

Well we're not quite at that level yet. We don't have a reality tv star as the president of the....oh.

Based purely on circumstantial evidence, yes. Definitely.

I watched an ex become more stupider after he joined a cult. It was as if he chose to switch off his critical thinking.

I think people are getting worse at risk assessment - people are becoming more desperate to be unique and distinctive, and to get attention on social media and to be seen as a ‘crazy guy’.

It’s partly an inevitable result of life becoming less precarious, with regulation and safety improvements to things like cars and food standards.