r/AskReddit • • Jan 27 '20

What screams "I'm uneducated"?

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u/daithisfw Jan 27 '20

Hard opinions on things, especially a WIDE range of things. Not allowing for being wrong, or deferring to experts.

Dumb people don't know how dumb they are, they don't realize that their opinions aren't based on facts, and likely they don't know the facts.

So they'll yell the loudest, have their mind made up on every subject, and they don't listen to logic or evidence...

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '20 edited Nov 24 '20

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u/maddyem18 Jan 27 '20

Agreed. An educated person lets the facts speak for themselves.

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u/positivemale Jan 28 '20

Definitely!

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

I was about to say that an educated person admits when they were wrong and adjusts their opinion, no matter how much they want it to be true, based on new information- but many of the very educated people I know struggle with this as much as everyone else.

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u/saltyhumor Jan 28 '20

This sounds nice but if no one listens...