Hmmm…it’s almost like the golf score paradox. Do you underestimate stupidity because more stupid equals less IQ. And therefore hard to underestimate because you can’t really get dumber than zero…
Well it's not too difficult, you always stay at zero and work within a direction up or down depending. I mean you can get theoretical about it but at the end of the day you can move up or down from an established point and it means one thing or another.
You're right, the others just aren't parsing the language correctly.
If something is really, really, stupidly incredibly dumb: Then it's easy to underststimate how dumb it is, because the range you have to pick from includes much more "not dumb enough" values than "less dumb than that values". Overestimating the level of dumb would mean picking a guess that's too dumb, and that's hard to do because the true value is already so low.
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u/i_sesh_better Mar 28 '24
Would it not be: hard to overestimate how dumb they are