Inverse Intelligence Theory

Anyone that has dealt with lesser intelligent beings, knows of the effects of long term exposure. This is the first time where anyone has bothered to express it as a theory.

Having first hand experience in this, from working at Walmart, I found a way to express this effect in a scientific way. The amount of time spent with each effecting body, will take a negative effect on your intelligence quotient. These effecting body, from now on referred to as "stupids," can take many different forms.

The first form of stupid is the most well known and effective, the individual. These are people who consistently say/do stupid things. The individual can have two different effects, the area effect and the instant effect.
The area effect of an individual is simply put as that the individual acts as a intelligence black hole. Just being present makes everything around them stupider.
The instant effect of an individual is that an individual can instantly wipe out everything smart in the area with one simple stupid action or statement.

The second form of stupid is a equally effective one, the area. This is much like the individual's area effect, but it doesn't require the individual. Some places are just so dumb that being there effects you. Walmart is my area of effectiveness.

The third and most prominent online is the idea. This is like the individual's instant effect only because you can't be around it. Online the idea effect is most observed on the image board sites, such as 4chan, simply thinking about something that is said can effect you.

Now that we have covered the different types of effects, I need to cover the theory. The theory is similar to a worm hole theory, but it is expressed in a temporary way. The stupids drain intelligence, but it doesn't to into them, it vanishes.
In order to return to normal you need twice the amount of time away from stupids then you spent being effected by them. Though taking part in a actual intelligent conversation for that amount of time with double the speed of recovery.

The effect is expressed in this formula:
L = P / (t x .25s)

L is the loss
P is your principal intelligence
t is time, expressed in hours
s is the amount of stupids (per area effect or per 3 instant effects/ hour)

For example, say the principle IQ of the subject is 140. He spends 8 hours at Walmart working with one stupid individual who says/does an average of 4 stupid things per hour. His manager comes back 4 times during the day and says one stupid thing and he deals with 12 stupid customers over the course of the day.
Lets deal with the instant effects first. 12 customers added to the 4 managers gives you 16 over the day, 8 hours gives you an average of 2 stupids per hour. Add that to the 4 from the one stupid coworker and you get 6 per hour. When plugging this into the equation, you would divide that by 3. So you have an equational effect of 2 on top of the area effect of the individual and the area, which gives you 4.

The equation as an example:

L = 140 / (8 x .25 x 4)
L = 140 / 8
L = 17.5

This example is a real life example of my daily work life. The principal is estimated, because I've never had a formal IQ test. If that as an example is accurite, then I temporarily loose about 12% of my intelligence by the end of the day.

And people wonder why I hate my job. ;)