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Therein lies the fault with Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid, a collection of essays edited by Yale IBM Professor of Psychology and Education Robert J. Sternberg, concerning how and why ostensibly intelligent people can do incredibly stupid things. Former president Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and Richard Nixon’s claims of innocence during the Watergate scandal are two landmark instances in which two men, blessed with all the trappings of intelligence, were incapable of sound judgement...
...trying to worsen its students’ grades. Indeed, with grade inflation, the speaker has changed but the substance (or lack thereof) hasn’t. (Earth to the president: We may not be as smart as our transcripts say we are, but we’re certainly not stupid...
...Havelock North on North Island, ready to get down to the ranch and shear some sheep, proprietor Pete Hill was quietly amused. Forget New Zealand's shepherding heritage?nothing could get him to herd sheep, even if he had any. "Field lice," as he called them, were far too stupid and too prone to disease. Seeing my city slicker's crushed expression, he did offer me the chance to douse a few of his dairy cows with a de-worming bath, but the intermittent late summer showers ruled that...
...Abercrombie wants this to happen,” said Ethan Y. Yeh ’02. “They’re not so stupid that they think this wouldn’t be offensive...
...recalls that he and his friends used to drive though the campus screaming “dickhead” and holding a sign out their car window that also said “dickhead.” Reminisces Cappy, “That was when I was young and stupid...