26 Stupid Things People Said With Complete Conviction

I feel like there’s a nonsensical sort of surprise always attributed to how confident deeply wrong people are in their opinions and “facts.” But I don’t think it necessarily needs to go as deep as labeling everything the Dunning-Kruger effect, or doing mental studies. It’s a pretty natural progression, as somebody who has no interest in learning anything new, well, doesn’t.

How that plays out is a person chock-full of inaccuracies and complete fabrications, who is dead-set on every one of them being completely true because that’s what they heard. Who are friends, scientists or data, to tell them otherwise? Getting trapped in a conversation with these people is usually first entertaining, then infuriating. 

Since Redditors have been kind enough to share the following tales of someone fully confident in their stupidity, this is a journey you can go on through someone else, with much less aggravation.