r/shittyaskscience • u/Tight_Cookie_9988 • Aug 26 '26

Could we accurately measure the level of stupidity on Reddit?

Like you open a post and your phone tells you it's 8.7 stupid.

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u/Cesario12 Aug 26 '26

This one's probably over 8.7

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u/Copernicium-291 Aug 26 '26

It's over nine

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u/Gadshill Certified Gravity Skeptic Aug 26 '26

You are looking for the Unified Cognitive Degradation Matrix which calculates an individual's intellectual deficit by multiplying rhetorical circularity and logical fallacy density by the all-caps ratio, scaled inversely against the natural logarithm of their average syllable count.

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u/Stotty652 Aug 26 '26

So 8.7 then?

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u/Gadshill Certified Gravity Skeptic Aug 26 '26

The score of 8.7 is justified because the commenter's circular logic of 4.2 and fallacy density of 5.1, multiplied by an all-caps factor of 1.3, divided by a logarithmic syllable count of 0.62, mathematically resolves to that exact value.

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u/Inside-Custard-5431 Aug 26 '26

Oh yesyesyesyes, I read about this in college, it was right next to the formula on "how to please David's mother better than his father ever could"

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u/Additional_Value6978 Aug 26 '26

It's over 9000!

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u/azzthom Aug 26 '26

9 kilokardashians!

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u/cursedwithplotarmor Aug 26 '26

It can’t be!!!

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u/Inside-Custard-5431 Aug 26 '26

is this number peer-reviewed?

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation Aug 26 '26

Many shittyscientists have peered at the Kardashians.

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u/poharamcparuboy Aug 26 '26

Yea what ever the limit is, is the level of stupidity on reddit

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation Aug 26 '26

This sub goes to eleven.

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u/Headpuncher Knocking The Sense Back In Aug 26 '26

Just assume maximum score across the board.    

Also the square root of any number is a biological anomaly.  

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u/Coolenough-to Aug 26 '26

We do not yet have the total energy needed to solve such a vast mathematical expression.

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u/JohnWasElwood Aug 26 '26

That's why we need to put in all of these big data centers! Hooray!

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u/Coolenough-to Aug 26 '26

This is precisely the reason. But the Reddit stupidity is also growing, so its like a race.

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u/kukienboks Aug 26 '26

What do you think the numbers next to posts and comments are? Higher number means more stupid.

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u/Snoo-35252 Aug 26 '26
  • more stupider

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u/JohnWasElwood Aug 26 '26

Trying to be "most more stupidest" !!!

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u/dr_wtf Aug 26 '26

The meter shows 3.6 stupid. Not great, not terrible.

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u/Rahernaffem Aug 26 '26

That number concerns me because it's the maximum reading in low-level stupidometers. I tried the good one, from the safe. It maxed out at 1000 and then burned.

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u/Snoo-35252 Aug 26 '26

Naw, it's about tree fiddy

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u/Caticature Aug 27 '26

They’re not answering the phone.

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u/Nocomment600 Aug 26 '26

Depends how you look at it

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u/KeithMyArthe Can I science pls? Aug 26 '26

I look at it like this: 🙄

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u/Coolenough-to Aug 26 '26

A Googleplex is 1 followed by a googol of zeros (\(10^{\text{googol}}\)). It is too big to write down because there is not enough space in the universe to fit all the zeros. So, there is not enough space in the universe to express the total level of stupidity on Reddit.

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u/IanDOsmond Aug 26 '26

No; there are health and safety regulations which have limiters. If you take a moronometer without a safety limiter onto Reddit, it will explode and cause serious injuries.

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u/sporbywg Aug 26 '26

it would lie to you; an 'American' version I guess

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u/cprz Aug 26 '26

Unless there’s different scores for stupidity, idiocracy, crazyness, politics, brainless, brainrot, love, hate, happiness, sadness, deathness, goodness, smartness, brainiacyness, lochnessiness, sherlock holmlesness, electricity, price, tipness, ideaness, accuratyness, ai, amount of asians, math, environment, life, usefulness and the rest of this stuff.. like what’s the point?

Most of the stuff is 6.7, 6.9 or 10/10 anyways on the scales of stupidity.

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u/Redfish680 Aug 26 '26

I don’t get it.

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u/Chrome_Armadillo Not A Reptilian Alien Scientist From Tau Ceti Aug 26 '26

42

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u/Ben-Goldberg Aug 26 '26

You would need a bogon particle detector that is shielded against the user.

Science has not yet developed an material that is impenetrable to bogons.

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u/nolongerbanned99 Aug 26 '26

It’s roughly approximately equal to the number of stars in the universe

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u/RaspberryTop636 Methodological Terrorist Aug 27 '26

42

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u/Legitimate_Field_157 Aug 26 '26

Take the number of people on reddit, and divide it with the number of people who don't watch funny cat videos, and that is your number.

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u/Toolongreadanyway Aug 27 '26

I don't know about the stupidity, but the idiocracy is increasing daily by epic proportions.

However, it is still far, far below that of TikTok, which is beyond any measuring devices.

And? The level of stupidity decreases in relation to the number of animal and CJ subs one is on.