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...smart-stupid individual guilty of folly, or being foolish, or lacking critical self-organization, or not appropriately delaying gratification? Each intellectual vignette engages a different perspective on stupidity, and in most cases, quibbles over language instead of getting to the matter’s core...
Alternately, intelligent people may appear stupid because they have problems adapting to their current circumstances. Bill Clinton was never caught for infidelity when he was the governor of Arkansas, writes Diane F. Halpern in “Sex, Lies and Audiotape,” so his later behaviour seemed appropriate given his prior learning. But Clinton’s greater responsibility and more intense scrutiny as President rendered his actions even more stupid than before because this time he was more liable to get caught. Stupidity is about frame of reference. A day laborer with...
...among the well-considered arguments that pepper the book’s first half, the remainder is a puzzling assortment of essays only vaguely related to why smart people can be so stupid...
...Elena L. Grigorenko and Donna Lockery’s contribution, the smart-stupid relevance is haphazardly tacked on to the introduction and conclusion, but remains entirely absent from the interceding paragraphs. Similarly, Elizabeth J. Austin and Ian J. Dreary’s “Personality Dispositions” is an approachable survey of personality types, but the relevance of those categories to intelligence is a poorly rendered afterthought...
Despite the flaws in execution, this book’s intent is something that academia needs. Intelligence may be something of a cult, but stupidity only receives cursory treatment. IQ tests, Mensa societies and SAT scores all measure intelligence, but stupidity remains the butt of crude humour and careless thought. Precisely because the state of being dumb has no analogue to being smart, Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid provides valuable insight into a subject that eludes, but intrigues...