" Pick on your own politicians...ours have enough trouble.     

 AGH! Put it back! george bush is retarded. 
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 #redirect George W. Bush 

 is my vote. 

 == Paucity of Academic research == 
 This is hardly surprising. I can't imagine any serious minded academic wanting to be Professor of Stupidity, or to be the Stupid Lecturer, or to hold the Stupidity Chair. Similarly, to have a Masters in Pure or Applied Stupidity from a Department of Stupidity Studies (DOSS) would (no matter how many Stupid Seminars one had attended) be unikely to enance one's academic status in an immediately obvious way.   
 :LOLOLOL   
 ::Actually it would be called Stupidology Dept.. The most needed of them all considering where this civilization is heading.   

 The fact of the matter is that there has been plenty of research, perhaps most famously, [Solomon Asch's|Asch_conformity_experiments] conformity experiments.  

 === Brain Damage? === 
 (I've subordinated this section to the last in part as a suggestion of where the stupidity research is being done.) 

 I can't help relating stup- to the German ""Stoß"", which i think means a sharp blow. (The SA ""stormtroopers"" were the Sturmabteilung"", literally ""Storm [or Storming] Detatchement""), but i'm pretty sure Remarque (in Three Comrades rather than ...Western Front) used the generic term ""Stoßtrup"" for what i took to be Weimar-era SA or SA-like stormtroopers engaged in sharp, short street attacks.) 

 My full-sized print Amer Her Dict traces ""stupid"" thru Latin words connected with being ""stunned"" and Greek ones concerning ""beat""ing to Proto-Indo-European ""steu-"" which includes ""beating"" in its constellation of meanings.  

 So i think we usually say ""stunned"" metaphorically, suggesting the (temporary) effects of a blow to the head, and that the concept of stupidity fundamentally evokes the difference in an individual's behavior before and after the infliction of permanent brain damage by a blow to the head. ""What are you, stupid?"" to me means ""Did you get your brains scrambled, and i didn't get to hear about it?"" 

 Not sure that's encyclopedic, but then, i'm not sure the article is any more so. [frown] 
  18:47, 2004 Dec 17 (UTC) 
 ::If you do not mind, I am fixing a few things.  You'll see.    

 == To the contributers who add the names of 'stupid' individuals to this article == 

 Adding the names of individuals deemed 'stupid' by the contributer is neither big nor clever. Neither is it particularly original- a quick browse of the change log for this page will show many have done this before. There is no point, as the change will be reverted almost immediately. 

 Ironically, this is a great way to demonstrate your own 'stupidity' whilst unintentionally bolstering the credibility of those you seek to slander. 

 == OK then, for the sake of discussion: Is George Bush Stupid? == 

 Seeing as this page is regularly vandalised with references to George Bush, perhaps it would be healthy for the understanding of stupidity to define exactly why or in what way is George Bush stupid. It is not unusual for the media to label a politician as 'stupid' but it would seem that Dubya is seen to be stupid by an uncommonly large amount of observers. 

 Personally, I dont think that he is that stupid, although he does lack what most (North American) people would term 'real world experience' in so far as he is privatly educated, has never had to have a proper job, and is by any standard out of touch with the struggles of the middle/working classes. I think that his questionable descision making regarding foreign and domestic policy, generally comes down to his cloistered upbringing, and a desire to protect the interests of his friends and family at any cost. 

 So- is George Bush 'really' stupid? If so- why? If not- why do people attribute stupidity to him?  fdsfs 

 : Breadth of vocabulary and other indirect indicators, peg Bush's IQ below both mean and median average, but still well above room temperature (low 70s), and above non-human primates (70s to 80s), according to a dubious report from 'Tthe Lovenstein Institute', which published 'research' purportedly for the education community on each new president, including a Pre