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Stupidity
Wikipedia & AI sez :
"Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, or wit, an inability to learn. It may be innate, assumed or reactive. The word stupid comes from the Latin word stupere. Stupid characters are often used for comedy in fictional stories.
What is Bonhoeffer's theory of stupidity?
A person becomes stupid because they allow themselves to become so transformed. People are also not stupid in isolation. Stupidity, according to Bonhoeffer, is an inevitably social phenomena. He observes that in groups people succumb to pressures and influences, and lose a grasp on their autonomy and moral reasoning.
What are the four quadrants of stupidity?
The quadrants are labeled helpless, intelligent, bandit, and stupid. The helpless create negative self-outcomes, but positive other outcomes. The intelligent create positive outcomes for everyone. The bandit creates positive self-outcomes but negative other-outcomes.
What is Carlo Cipolla's theory of stupidity?
"The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" (1976) --The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
Carlo M. Cipolla
The Psychology of Stupidity
Jean-Francois Marmion, Liesl Schillinger
Idiot America - How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Charles P. Pierce
Brain Fart... How to Think Less Stupid
Peter Hollins
Why So Stupid?
Edward De Bono
Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid
Robert J. Sternberg
Stupidity
Avital Ronell
The Stupidity Paradox: The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work
Alvesson, M.
The Natural Science of Stupidity
Paul Tabori
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber