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The science of stupidity - superadmin - 11-04-2021 The French thinker Voltaire said: “The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.” The late Carlo M Cipolla, who taught for many years at Berkeley University in the US, did more than contemplate the extent of human stupidity; he postulated several laws after much research. The professor of economic history came up with five laws which he penned in an essay called The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation; The probability that a certain person is 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; Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, dealing and/or associating with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake; and A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person. - More -