# Why are dumb people often very loud? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 1, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-dumb-people-often-very-loud/697094 "2014-09-01T00:19:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-dumb-people-often-very-loud/697094/21 "2014-09-01T19:05:13Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > Do you notice a correlation for intelligent = voice at soft-to-moderate levels? I am not the one making claims here, you are. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-dumb-people-often-very-loud/697094/22 "2014-09-01T19:58:51Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Because they’re deaf? We have a friend who wears a hearing aid. As he talks, he tends to get louder and his wife usually has to shush him. He’s a retired pharmacist, so it’s not a matter of IQ. IMHO, the OP is painting with an extremely large brush, based on zero data. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-dumb-people-often-very-loud/697094/23 "2014-09-01T20:46:22Z")
> [@AnaMen](#): > > Maybe they drown out new information. They started out just loud, but years of it has made them the dummies they are today. Or it could be going the other way. Maybe people tend to ignore what they’re saying because they’re dumb and they begin talking louder to compensate. In which case, they started out just dumb and then became loud. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-dumb-people-often-very-loud/697094/24 "2014-09-01T23:14:34Z")
You know who else was loud? _ **HITLER!** _ And he put ketchup on hot dogs. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-dumb-people-often-very-loud/697094/25 "2014-09-02T22:16:06Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > … And he put ketchup on hot dogs. Well at least he did SOMETHING right. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-dumb-people-often-very-loud/697094/26 "2014-09-02T23:19:18Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > You are confusing social ineptitude with intelligence. It’s very common for highly intelligent people to be socially inept, and equally common for “unintelligent” people to be very socially facile and easy-going. Uh huh. The either/or of having intelligence and social skills and being dumb but good with people again. > [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > It’s quite possible that you are perceiving them as dumb because they are loud, rather than them being loud because they are dumb. Plus, if someone is dumb and quiet how would you know they are dumb at all? Because he’s making shit up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-dumb-people-often-very-loud/697094.md?page=1)