How Did Some Americans Become So Stupid?

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I can’t say that I think America is the center of the world since I’m particularly fascinated by other cultures. I speak French and Spanish.

Ultimately, it doesn’t really matter what Danish and Swedish cousins think or what our confirmation bias leads us to believe. What matters is what the research actually says. Some people base their views on America on its dumbest citizens which isn’t fair or logical in my opinion.

There are ignorant people in every country. America could certainly work on furthering literacy by improving its educational systems and changing various policies for sure but so can many other countries in the world.

What I have noticed is that unlike when I grew up unless it directly effects us our media in general either ignores news in other countries or gives them the short shrift. It makes business sense because most people care much more about what is happening locally than thousands of miles away.

From what I see unless the media emphasizes it most Americans not only do not pay much attention to other countries, they are oblivious to how much people in other countries pay attention to and care about what is happening here. Even myself who follows the news closely get taken aback by foreigners who know more about our politics then I do.

^ Good point. I think the media mostly only focuses on other countries when they could pose a threat due to their size, power, and poor relations with the US. Perhaps other countries are so interested in American politics specifically because of its perceived power.

The US might be more interested in Europe in general if they weren’t so far away.

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https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/ ... countries/

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So what?

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Have you always lived in Canada, Isabella?

For some reason last year, when I was last active on the forum before a long break, I thought you were from the UK.

Stupidity is a kind of intellectual stubbornness.  A stupid person has access to all the information necessary to make an appropriate judgment, to come up with a set of reasonable and justified beliefs and yet fails to do so.  The evidence is staring them right in the face but it makes no difference whatsoever.  They believe what they want to believe.  Not only do they have no good reasons for thinking that what they believe is true -- there are often good reasons for thinking that what they believe is false -- but they are not acting in a rational manner.

Source:  "How to Fix American Stupidity" 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 111042.htm

(In comparison, fundamentalists make up 10-15% of the Canadian population, depending on the survey. https://theconversation.com/canadas-mar ... ght-121024)

Even though things are improving, that’s still a lot of Americans who reject evolution. If they reject overwhelming evidence here, they may be more inclined to be suspicious of or reject other forms of research/evidence. Critical thought may also be a problem, making people anti-education in general.

My former religious cult discourages members from pursuing higher education (which is reflected in the numbers I posted previously) and engages in logical fallacies/baseless claims in their publications constantly. People are led to believe that their publications are the best sources of information out there, besides the Bible.

Many people have gone to and supported the Creation “Museum” to be taught indoctrinated to believe that the Earth has only been around for 6,000 years and that people coexisted with dinosaurs.

Top 10 Signs that Someone May Be Stupid:

10. No one can ever accuse them of being lost in thought.

9. They believe "Arab" is a religion.

8. They believe it is funny when someone gets hurt.

7. They believe their boyfriends will love them more if they make them feel jealousy.

6. They believe their girlfriends will love them more if they give advice to them about their weight.

5. They judge everything solely by appearances, even themselves.

4. They see a moving dot in the sky and assume space aliens are piloting it.

3. They sell their cars for gas money.

2. They wonder why the elevator has a button for the floor they are already on.

1. They worry about what other people might be thinking.

0. They will never realize that there are actually 11 items on this list.

No I haven't always lived in Canada.
I've lived in three countries.

The Groomer decided I was in UK during our friendship, because it made him horny.
He spread that around WP as being fact.

The other idiot who wrote porn about me tried to doxx where I live.
I crafted it so that they doxxed the wrong information.

I am British but I don't share my location online.

I may be moving to Devon, though.