Rutter: Science finally proves you can't fix stupid
Meet Cornell University psychologist David Dunning, our new most totally favorite scientist. He's spent 15 years studying stupid people.
Ever since 1999, when he offered the original theory and research, Dunning has been advancing the cause of Stupid Study, the regime of inquiry that assesses how totally brick-headed people are, and how little any of them realize it.
Dunning's premise based on thousands of interviews seems to demonstrate that dumb people don't – or rather can't – tell they are stupid. In fact, the very factors that impose human incompetence also make them incapable of realizing it.
Dumb people – or rather, for more scientific clarity, the profoundly really numbskulled – never get less stupid. As noted philosopher and Scotch drinker Ron White suggests: "You can't fix stupid."