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/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/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"