Submitted 3 weeks ago by DarkMayhemXIII@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
Is there really a difference? I feel like if you don’t know something, that kind of makes you stupid, right? If you don’t know historical facts or mathematics—at least the harder stuff, like algebra or calculus—or if you don’t know about advanced political topics, then you’re kind of a stupid person, not just ‘ignorant.’
Ignorance: Lack of information. Stupidity: Inadequate usage of logical reasoning to seek and process information.
That’s how I understand it
I don’t know and I don’t care
Ignorance is not knowing things (e.g. facts).
Stupidity is not being about to think about things (e.g. lacking reason, being unable to make a good decision even when given all the useful information).
Making a bad decision out of ignorance isn’t necessarily stupid. Making a bad decision despite knowing the consequences is.
Ignorance is not knowing something.
Stupidity is not have the ability to know something.
Ignorance characterizes knowledge; stupidity characterizes behavior.
You can be ignorant without being stupid and stupid without being ignorant, but they tend to be correlated because avoiding knowledge is stupid behavior.
Ignorance is simply the absense of knowledge. A newborn baby, for example, is ignorant of pretty much everything in the world.
Stupidity is having been exposed to knowledge and willfully ignoring it.
Not knowing math because you were never taught math doesn’t make you stupid; it makes you ignorant. Not knowing math because you failed to soak in what you were taught makes you stupid unless you have a mental illness that fucks with your ability to learn.
Ignorance is an overlapping circle with stupidity. If you are ignorant about something, you do not possess knowledge of it. Perhaps you've not been exposed to the information yet, or aren't old enough to comprehend it. In such cases, you may be ignorant but not stupid.
If you are stupid, you have failed to acquire knowledge that you should have, given your circumstances, or you come to incorrect conclusions based on the correct knowledge you have acquired. In the former case, you are both stupid and ignorant; in the latter, only stupid.
I feel most of the comments split these two apart too. I mean yes, in the most basic form ignoro means to not know. Which seems innocuous enough in its elf, but a lot of ignorant people will often not admit (be it to themselves or others) that they’re ignorant. And I don’t know whether that’s stubbornness, stupidity, pride or whatever.
Now we’re seeing more and more people who feel cool and tough about themselves because of their ignorance.
People, like AI , can state bullshit with such conviction it may even fool other ignorant and stupid people. Meanwhile people actually might have a good idea or something to say get laughed at. Providing back up for your statements with evidence Is useless in this post-truth
Those people are also stupid.
There are different kinds of stupidity and ignorance.
And yes, there are lots of differences. Often the stupid person is the person who expects other people to not be ignorant of what they know, and makes other people feel stupid, and thus destroys any chance anyone has of learning from each other.
Lots of stupid people, can’t admit their ignorance. And lots of people can’t admit they made a mistake, and thus remain ignorant.
Stupidity isn’t just lack of knowledge, it’s lack of wisdom. Lack of ability to think about your knowledge and apply it
Ignorance is not knowing the words have different definitions. Stupidity is refusing to look up either, and instead crowdsourcing the answer.
Ignorant = doesn’t know yet.
Stupid = knows better but does it anyway.
The ignorant usually improve. The stupid usually don’t.
Ignorance is not knowing something. Stupidity is knowing something and acting like you don’t.
You can be ignorant on a specific subject, but stupidity is universal.
By that logic, everyone is extremely stupid, since it’s impossible to know everything.
Ignorance is being uninformed.
Stupidity is to either ignore or not understand or to intentionally stay uninformed.
We are all ignorant, stupid.
By feeling, stupid feels like lack of ability to learn and ignorant feels like lazy/avoidant of something you could learn.
In my opinion, and the fact that it’s just an opinion is part of the answer itself, the term stupidity or stupid doesn’t really mean much of anything. As you say it has a lot of overlap with the concept of ignorance, the main reason someone might choose to use one term over the other is to make it derogatory, or to express displeasure with a person or action. If you’re neutral about someone lacking knowledge of something, you think they’re “ignorant” if you are annoyed by this or don’t like that person, you think they’re “stupid”.
However if you look up “stupid” in the dictionary there is a bit of a difference. It focusses more on cognitive capacity than knowledge. So if you don’t know things because you’re inherently lacking in the ability to learn them effectively, people might say you’re stupid, whereas if you don’t know things because there was simply no opportunity for you ever to have learned them, then you’re ignorant.
Ignorance is not knowing what Lemmy is.
Stupidity is to sign up and continuing to use Lemmy anyways.
;p
Ignorant is more specific, only applies when someone doesn’t know or doesn’t want to know something. That can be referred to as stupid, but stupid can also refer to any other kind of stupidity, such as struggling to work out a basic math or logic puzzle, or failing to follow basic instructions.
i think ignorance is reject learn things that you dont knew stupidity is do things thinking that you knew it, but not. (sorry my bad english)
I’m sorry that this doesn’t at all answer the question…But I just had to link this incredibly iconic moment from King of the Hill.
Ignorance is a clack of knowledge.
Stupidity is a choice to not learn.
Some one who is ignorant, can cure that by learning. Some one who is stupid never will.
DigDoug@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ignorance is not knowing things.
Stupidity is refusing to learn things.
Racoonwithbenefits@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Stupidity is also inability to learn
AskewLord@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
inability to learn is a choice.
they do not want to make the effort.
whether or not that effort is worthwhile, however, is the question.
I am learning Russian. lots of people I met recently, love to tell me how stupid it is because it’s not a ‘useful’ thing to learn.
Venator@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Ignorance can be used to refer to both cases.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
yeah but that’s a phrase not a word: “willful ignorance.”