What is the ration of intelligent peoples and dumb ones?

Question

By reading the questions in here, I've realized that a lot of peoples have a pea brain... there are some estimations that only 10% of peoples are very intelligent, another 10% just plain intelligent and the rest are dumb as a brick... what are your views about the intelligence of the peoples in here ?

Answer 1

Why are you talking to peas and bricks anyway.  Doesn't sound very smart. why don't you talk to the bag of nails?

Answer 2

The "ratio" of dumb vs smart people will always depend on which segment of the population you include in your parameters.  Yahoo answers has some very smart people.  Unfortunately, if you look at a crosscut of the questions asked, you realize that the majority of the people are complete idiots, with shallow lives.  How sad it is that we fill our lives with such nonsense.

My answer........20% smart or 1 in 5 intelegent people.

Answer 3

My guess is that most of the people here are average or a bit above.  It does take some intelligence, after all, to even be able to set up an account and figure out how to ask or answer questions.  If you are assuming that intelligent people ask intelligent questions and give intelligent answers, you are probably making a false assumption.  

In the "real" world, you will find that about 2/3 of people are "average" with about 15% above average in terms of intelligence, and only about 2% being well above average - so to use your categories, 2% are very intelligent and 15% just plain intelligent.

Answer 4

Most are more intelligent than they appear from simple answers or exaggerated, dramatized questions.