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For me, a general lack of curiosity how things work, from human behavior, to technology, to economy, and everything else. And how you inform yourself.
Of course you can't always be interested in everything and can't know how everything works in detail, no one has time for that. Also you might be wrongly informed in certain instances. But if you're so uninterested that you don't know how almost anything works even in basic ways, or you for example only get your information from "my parents told me" or "I only believe what I have seen" or similar, I'm seriously questioning your general intelligence.
Otherwise, their reaction when their beliefs are challenged. I don't necessarily mean when they're told they're wrong, but when they do something and reality gives them an unfavourable result, idk, like a magnet not sticking to a surface, if they keep trying to stick it on instead of maybe evaluating that the surface (or "magnet") is not magnetic.