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Why do people assume that people those who wear glasses are intelligent and smarter?

Anish Asokan @RevivedWarrior (3853) • India 21 Feb 25

A group of new joiners were talking about their experience and in between the conversation, some pointed out they feel few of us people are smarter and intelligent. When probed, the answer – because some of us were wearing...

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Assume? Or presume?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Nov 24

I have said quite often in comments that I shouldn’t ‘assume’ so much. Sometimes I’d use ‘presume’ and I got to wondering what the difference was and did it matter. It seems that while both mean to take something for granted,...

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Do not assume

Always smiling @allknowing (153530) • India 20 May 23

Assuming based on little or no knowledge can sometimes be fatal . My boss who I worked with years ago had this to say "ASSUME is to make an ASS of U and ME That is surely a powerful line and I am sure many of us have assumed...

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Before we assume anything, we can try the crazy method of asking!! It helps!!

Rashna Gandhi @Rashnag (30597) • Surat, India 18 Nov 21

Hi guys, Hope you all are doing good. I am doing good too. I really believe that many a times in life, we knowingly or unknowingly assume a lot of things about people, situations etc. I feel that...

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Do you feel that people make assumptions about you based on your looks?

dpk262006 @dpk262006 (58679) • Delhi, India 17 Aug 17

There is a saying - "Don't judge a book by its cover." However, many a times we do not go by this saying we make assumption about others based on their looks. For example in a party if one is wearing expensive clothes and...

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Assuming....

STOUTjodee @STOUTjodee (3670) • United States 25 Jan 17

A friend of mine @TheHorse recently made a post about the silliest breakfast you've ever had and it reminded me of some one I know. They like to make people assume she hasn't had breakfast by saying at 2 p.m. she hasn't even had...

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Assumptions at work

Yasser Mattar @yeezermac (145) • Singapore, Singapore 2 Nov 15

So you've met A**HOLES at work? But have you met ASS-UME-HOLES? Assumeholes are colleagues who make stupid ass assumptions about us based on their limited understandings of the world. Here are some assumptions Assumeholes have...

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Never Assume People Know

megamatt @megamatt (14290) • United States 29 Oct 15

One of the most annoying things it to do is to assume something. Never assume someone knows something. It can lead to embarrassment and frustration when they don't. Communication helps us, and I might not know something is going...

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communication

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why people judge us from our appearance

zarreen khan @zarreenkhan (5) • Navi Mumbai, India 3 Sep 15

It is always seej that people predict about someone just by looking at their face. If a person look is rough then certainly he must be rude. if a person looks beautiful then he must be very gentle and kind. We don't even wait to...

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What's the worse that can happen?

laglen @laglen (19759) • United States 28 Sep 12

Let's use our thinking caps, our imagination. I want to contemplate what America will look like in four years if Obama is re-elected. This does not have to be cloaked in fact. Simply hypothesize. Have fun with it and please...

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I don't like people to assume..

lady Di @lady1993 (27221) • Philippines 24 Apr 12

that we are rich...they always do that. before since my father worked abroad, they always assumed that we were rich, but working abroad does not guarantee good money and my dad sacrificed a lot just to give us good education...Now...

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Let’s Suppose

Professor2010 @Professor2010 (20156) • India 15 Apr 12

As a professor of Physics, the most favorite word I used during teaching is ‘let’s suppose’; in Physics we have to assume and imagine many things to understand the physical system properly. This is true in our day today...

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Are people who ASSUME things about others less intelligent than the average....

mommyboo @mommyboo (13174) • United States 16 Jul 11

...person? I have seen quite a few discussions lately where the poster of the discussion ignored the cardinal sin of NOT assuming things about an entire group or sub-class!! I belong to the order of folks who believe those who...

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Assume

kiran9 @kiran9 (255) • India 2 May 10

If you were prime minister. what will you do for Nation or public. what is you goal. How to develop our country? how to protect the country? Describe briefly

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Which are you choose between get married or no?

hartiono @hartiono (80) • Indonesia 21 Apr 10

Some people assume that marriage will make life more happier but another people assume with opposite opinion. I think marriage can make my life enjoyable. I can do something with my family together. Family problem can solved if...

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Why do people assume things and never ask?

jugsjugs @jugsjugs (12967) 31 Mar 10

I had a very good friend say to me the other day that the reason i was not asked to go some where was because they assumed i would be busy? Yet other times then they must have assumed i was not busy,is that the case.I hate people...

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Have you been mistaken for someone else?

3SnuggleBunnies @3SnuggleBunnies (16374) • United States 2 Oct 09

And both of you were going on and on til you figured out it wasn't you? I had a lady once tell me she worked with my half sister. I'm like um... ok. Since I hardly speak to my half sister and hardly have a relationship at all...

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Have you ever assumed something about someone

firecracker @sacmom (14192) • United States 16 May 09

and it turned out you were wrong? Or better yet, someone assumed something about you and they were wrong? LOL While I was at the store tonight (a store I shop at regularly) one of the cashiers asked me where my son was (I got...

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Is it my fault or what . . .

kimbers867 @kimbers867 (2539) • United States 12 May 09

Little background. I take my best friend and her two kids to school every morning, I drive because I am usually dropping them off at school, along with daughter, then I drive to the school that I work at. She then waits at the...

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Forgiveness..

tessah @tessah (6617) • United States 16 Jan 09

not something im all that good at. im a hard a55.. i know this. im difficult and demanding, short fused and volatile. i expect alot from the people i keep close to me.. but i give what i expect, so i feel my demands arent unfair...

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