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if people on Y!A are representative sample of the world population,how would you?

rate/assess the capability of the world? as intelligent,competent or moron

Update:

the question is not about the people on Y!A, but about the whole population of the world,

of which i am no doubt a member.

if world population (capability) is as it is,

is there any hope for the world,in particular to humanity?

level7 - 4

level4 - 3

date 30jan. - 7 total

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  • 7 years ago
    Favourite answer

    Let me clue you in on this. :) Please?

    Most of the people here on Y!A aren't adults yet--there are an awful lot of teenagers here on the site. This skews things away from "competence" in general because you are dealing with the Young and Younger crowd.

    That, however, is not the issue.

    The issue is the culture of the site in general and this category in particular.

    In general, we're misfits here. We don't fit in to the rest of society much. The teenagers that are here? They have a habit of being the ones who do NOT like Justin Beiber, among other things. The adults who are here? There's a fair number of retirees here, sure, but also a fair number of people here who could, in fact, USE jobs and USE anti-depressants (or better ones than what they have).

    We're misfits here, and we're here on a seriously casual, pre-morning-caffiene basis. Meaning "here for giggles." Meaning, ok, we act like morons and herp-a-derp, but really?

    It's an act. For most of us, it's an act. The world doesn't WANT us to get serious, and organized.

  • wizjp
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    About 7 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other.........

    Hopefully a lot of the impressions formed and made here are skewed by language and general bad writing skills.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    I would say competent although most of them act like a moron

  • 7 years ago

    They tend toward moronic... but can be both intelligent and competent.

  • Jesere
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    No Comment

  • 7 years ago

    i noticed that you are an idiot!!

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    If that's the case, we're in a lot more trouble than we ever thought possible.

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