No, just because you’re stupid doesn’t mean you can’t learn.
You just tend to learn more slowly than other people.
Just because you’re smart doesn’t mean that you are always correct. It means that you can learn the wrong information faster.
The difference between a bad stupid person or a bad smart person and a good stupid person and a good smart person is what information they have absorbed and processed and what they do with it.
That’s aside from the entire point that stupidity is a spectrum, like you might be the world’s greatest theoretical physicist, but be completely incapable of wearing matching socks without somebody putting them on you for you.
Agreed… however, I find it hard to believe that a person with an education (i.e. a solid base of knowledge) would be as susceptible to stupid ideas as ignorant people are. Maybe this is where the message got muddled for me.
For example, a person with a normal knowledge of science (let’s say European highschool level), should be immune to the notion the Earth is flat… maybe it takes them longer to convince themselves (if they are stupid and as you say, slower to “get there”)
I think you are confusing those who can buy a degree vs those who actually earn one.
No, just because you’re stupid doesn’t mean you can’t learn.
You just tend to learn more slowly than other people.
Just because you’re smart doesn’t mean that you are always correct. It means that you can learn the wrong information faster.
The difference between a bad stupid person or a bad smart person and a good stupid person and a good smart person is what information they have absorbed and processed and what they do with it.
That’s aside from the entire point that stupidity is a spectrum, like you might be the world’s greatest theoretical physicist, but be completely incapable of wearing matching socks without somebody putting them on you for you.
Agreed… however, I find it hard to believe that a person with an education (i.e. a solid base of knowledge) would be as susceptible to stupid ideas as ignorant people are. Maybe this is where the message got muddled for me.
For example, a person with a normal knowledge of science (let’s say European highschool level), should be immune to the notion the Earth is flat… maybe it takes them longer to convince themselves (if they are stupid and as you say, slower to “get there”)