The bell curve of intelligence strikes again! This meme brilliantly captures how basic scientific knowledge sometimes skips the extremes. People with average intelligence (the middle 68%) correctly understand that whales are mammals, while those at both ends of the IQ spectrum somehow think "whales are fish."
It's the perfect representation of the horseshoe theory of stupidity - where the super low IQ crowd thinks whales are fish because "they swim in water, duh!" while the supposed geniuses have circled back to wrong conclusions through some galaxy-brain overthinking. Meanwhile, the reasonable middle is just screaming "THEY HAVE LUNGS AND NURSE THEIR YOUNG!"
Next time someone tries to impress you with their 145 IQ, just casually ask them about whale classification and watch the chaos unfold!
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