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A Philsophical Inquiry Into the Nature of StupidityNote: See Andy's College Football thread below for college football and hot cheerleaders. Niedermeyer's Dead Horse sends this. This is actually by some kind of economist. The piece itself is humorous in nature, and ornamented with quasi-economic language for comedic effect, but it's a matter of Kidding on the Square -- he's being funny, but he means it. Or at least the basics of it. Worth a read, I think, if you like this sort of mock-academic humor. First, he looks into s, the fraction of a population which is Stupid. After first noting that the only rule of s will always be larger than your estimates of s (in other words, no matter how Stupid you think people are, you're wrong, they're more stupid than you think), he notes that this fraction s is independent of other factors (such as education, income, race, and so forth) and Stupid is maddeningly consistent among all sub-populations. Whenever I analyzed the blue-collar workers I found that the fraction s of them were stupid. As s's value was higher that I expected (First Law), paying my tribute to fashion I thought at first that segregation, poverty, lack of education were to be blamed. But moving up the social ladder I found that the same ratio was prevalent among the white collar employees and among the students. More impressive still were the results among the professors. Whether I considered a large university or a small college, a famous institution or an obscure one, I found that the same fraction s of the professors are stupid. So bewildered was I by the results, that I made a special point to extend my research to a specially selected group, to a real elite, the Nobel laureates. The result confirmed Nature's supreme powers: s fraction of the Nobel Laureates are stupid. Being an economist, he graphs the human population according to their propensity to fall into one of four categories: The Helpless, who will give you a benefit while experiencing a loss themselves. The Intelligent, who will bargain a benefit for themselves while also delivering a benefit to you. And the Bandit, one who benefits himself while simply stealing from you. The fourth category are the Stupid, who cause a loss for you while deriving no benefit from it themselves: A stupid person is a person who caused losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses. After discussing the "super-Stupid," he turns to the role of the Stupid in society. THE POWER OF STUPIDITY Now he discusses the political/economic implications of Stupid, and how the fraction of Stupid s determines a nation's fate. THE FIFTH BASIC LAW So there you go. You can follow NDH on twitter as @mflynny | Recent Comments
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