{"id":888,"date":"2003-06-29T19:28:54","date_gmt":"2003-06-29T23:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/06\/29\/is-there-a-stupidity-quotient\/"},"modified":"2003-06-29T19:28:54","modified_gmt":"2003-06-29T23:28:54","slug":"is-there-a-stupidity-quotient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/06\/29\/is-there-a-stupidity-quotient\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a stupidity quotient?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a106'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boston Globe story basically asks the question, &#8220;Why do smart people do such stupid things?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have been wondering the exact same thing for years, especially after buying a lottery ticket  or eating at McDonalds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/180\/focus\/Is_there_a_stupidity_quotient_+.shtml\">&#8220;Several stupidity scholars link foolishness to a lack of impulse control. &#8220;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe story basically asks the question, &#8220;Why do smart people do such stupid things?&#8221; I have been wondering the exact same thing for years, especially after buying a lottery ticket or eating at McDonalds. &#8220;Several stupidity scholars link foolishness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/06\/29\/is-there-a-stupidity-quotient\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[581],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}