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Subject: Stupid question, but are there really that many stupid people?

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith

So, I got that stupid call from the "Microsoft PC Support Center" about a serious risk on my windows based PC. After going off, telling him exactly where to jam his headset, I thought, that call center has to be expensive.

I could hear a few people behind him talking. That means its a traditional call bank with rows of telemarketers. They are likely paid by the hour, and by the successful dupe.

Also, they had my name and phone number. That means they bought a list from someone. Those lists are not cheap.

That means that there must be enough people falling for this to pay for this call center, the lists, and turn a profit too. Otherwise why do it?

So, are there really enough people that would fall for this scam that its this profitable? I thought that by now there must be enough scare pieces on the networks that everyone would know about these scams.

  • 12.12.2012 10:03 AM PDT

Posted by: The Kangol Kid
It was then that I decided he really is like semen(everywhere) and I gave up on life.


zoobkillerninja <3

Why yes, yes there are.

  • 12.12.2012 10:04 AM PDT

More than enough people would fall for that.

  • 12.12.2012 10:06 AM PDT

Hey there!

It´s sad,i know....

  • 12.12.2012 10:06 AM PDT
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Foman is my favorite moderator. <3

The world is filled with stupid people - stupid people you can use to your advantage.

  • 12.12.2012 10:06 AM PDT
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I like Cheese


Posted by: Dodge Reborn
More than enough people would fall for that.

  • 12.12.2012 10:07 AM PDT

“If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.” - John Locke

"How can anyone be enlightened? Truth after all is so poorly lit." - Rush

Gotta love dat capitalism

  • 12.12.2012 10:07 AM PDT

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
-Nietzsche

50% of people are of below average intelligence, Charlie. Fifty percent. One out of every two people is a moron.

[Edited on 12.12.2012 10:08 AM PST]

  • 12.12.2012 10:07 AM PDT

Now go make me some tea.

Reminds me of that picture of EA customer support:

"YOU: Hi, I bought Battlefield 3 a month ago on Origin, yet it hasn't shown up in my account. I've been emailing and no one has responded"

"Support: akldfkjfsdkj"

Your chat session has ended.

  • 12.12.2012 10:07 AM PDT

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Posted by: Holden Caulfield
"You're a phony"

Garem is a hero, you autistic.

You should have acted....

  • 12.12.2012 10:07 AM PDT


Posted by: Disambiguation
50% of people are of below average intelligence, Charlie. Fifty percent.
Some people are of average intelligence, if you go by the IQ test.

50%> are below average intelligence.

This is also assuming that Intellect is varied at a constant rate and there are no large gaps between intellects that are not mirrored of either side of the average.

[Edited on 12.12.2012 10:12 AM PST]

  • 12.12.2012 10:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: Disambiguation
50% of people are of below average intelligence, Charlie. Fifty percent.

Technically wouldn't it be 50% minus one person?

^_^

  • 12.12.2012 10:09 AM PDT

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Yes, there are.

  • 12.12.2012 10:11 AM PDT

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
-Nietzsche

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Posted by: Disambiguation
50% of people are of below average intelligence, Charlie. Fifty percent.

Technically wouldn't it be 50% minus one person?
That doesn't make any sense.

  • 12.12.2012 10:13 AM PDT
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It's all fun and games until you accidently try to scam an FBI personnel

  • 12.12.2012 10:16 AM PDT

Shakes Magic 8 Ball

Now that I have you on the phone, have you heard about our latest offer on phone and internet?

  • 12.12.2012 10:20 AM PDT

Doc: "i'm a pacifist"
Caboose: "your a thing that babies suck on?"
Tucker: "no dude, that's a pedephile"
Church: "tucker, i think he means a pacifier"

If people weren't dumb enough to fall for it, there wouldn't be so many scams out there.

  • 12.12.2012 10:22 AM PDT
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Posted by: Disambiguation
Posted by: A Good Troll
Posted by: Disambiguation
50% of people are of below average intelligence, Charlie. Fifty percent.

Technically wouldn't it be 50% minus one person?
That doesn't make any sense.

First I'll clarify this applies to the median as that is how I interpreted your post (because you said 50% - a true math definition of average you wouldn't know unless you had a data set - if data points are extreme 60-70% can technically be below average).

50% can't be below average because the average falls right on 50% is what I was trying to say. So, if your sample size was 101, 50 people would be below median, 50 above median, and there would be one solitary person that was decidedly average.

So ~49.5% below average in that example.

[Edited on 12.12.2012 10:25 AM PST]

  • 12.12.2012 10:23 AM PDT

Beta Tau

The masses are asses /thread.

  • 12.12.2012 10:24 AM PDT

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  • 12.12.2012 10:25 AM PDT