This is also the reason why stupidity is not the opposite of intelligence, because there are very intelligent people who are also very stupid — Matias

And at long last I've finally realized that it's stupid to tell stupid people that they are stupid. — 180 Proof

How would you define it? — Matias

How would you define it? — Matias

So stupidity would be not desiring to correct one's own deficits. — Pantagruel

Stupidity is extreme bias — Christoffer

That looks like stupidity to me. A pervasive refusal to try to learn. — fdrake

The best definition I have heard is someone doing the exact same thing in identical circumstances and expecting a different outcome.

This is why human stupidity has its benefits. Sometimes something different does happen. — I like sushi

I like Kant's definition best, which he says is a "lack of judgment" (= Mangel an Urteilskraft), whereby for him judgment is the ability to subsume sensory impressions under the concepts of reason. (Kant: "intellectual concepts as such are empty, mere perceptions are blind) . This ability of judgment is therefore the "hinge" between the world outside and the world of ideas and concepts. If this hinge is defective, as in the case of stupidity, then the ideas and concepts work idly, in a void, so to speak, without any connection to reality. — Matias

What if someone is able to learn, calculative, intelligent, wilful, determined, of sound mind and they still do not learn and grow? Still don't try to excise their errors and expand their strengths across many domains they are in fact able to?

That looks like stupidity to me. A pervasive refusal to try to learn — fdrake

The question is, when others fall short of our expectations of them in this way, is the failure in their intent or in our failure to separate their perspective from our own norms? — Joshs

Stupidity is typically a blameful judgement of moral culpability we level against others (or ourselves) which supposes bad intent. — Joshs

A pervasive refusal to try to learn. — fdrake

What if someone is able to learn, calculative, intelligent, wilful, determined, of sound mind and they still do not learn and grow? Still don't try to excise their errors and expand their strengths across many domains they are in fact able to? — fdrake

The question is, when others fall short of our expectations of them in this way, is the failure in their intent or in our failure to separate their perspective from our own norms?
— Joshs

Allowing for another's perspective (and first of all, learning what it actually is), surely feels like lack of confidence on one's own part (for many people, at least). — baker

And at long last I've finally realized that it's stupid to tell stupid people that they are stupid. — 180 Proof

... an incapacity for sound judgment. — Tom Storm

Those ancients are still very relevant and, essentially, modern, don't you think? — 180 Proof

CBT, which I assume you're familiar with, is in large part derived from both Socratic methods and Hellenistic philosophies such as Stoicism & Epicureanism — 180 Proof

Is this because they are dumb, or has the American system (education / media / corporate influence) failed people, making them rubes and willing victims of a demagogue? — Tom Storm

We can't use CBT for political stupidity can we?

This brain rot is virulent in Britain, Germany, Hungary, Turkey & Poland too. :eyes: — 180 Proof

A pervasive refusal to try to learn. — fdrake

Stupidity: n, thinking philosophy can be found in a dictionary. :wink: — unenlightened