midwit

Have you heard of the midwit meme? It’s a bell curve of intelligence. On the left, there’s the simpleton. On the right, there’s the genius. And in the middle, there’s the midwit.

Are You A Simpleton, Midwit, Or A Genius? - GradSimple Tyler 2024

Overall, the evidence suggests that our elected representatives could be accurately described as “midwits” – people of above-average but unremarkable intelligence.

Are we ruled by midwits? Aporia 2023

The midwit places all of his trust in experts who are supposed to know what they’re doing, and then turns around and parrots what the experts say as though he considers himself a member of that class. At no point in this process does the midwit have to review information for himself or consider ideas in abstract.

Brief Genealogy of the Midwit - The Pillarist Merri 2022