<a href="http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/" rel="nofollow">http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidit...</a><p>The article doesn't have much substance besides long quotes from the original, and the original reads better.
Law 2 is specially right. Stupid appears in every segment of society. And stupid never knows they are stupid.<p>I would say one can be a genius in one part but totally clueless in another. IQ doesn't guarantee you a free ride.
On a related topic, competence, I have come to realise over time that I and many people I know have a bias towards people in professions they don't know much about, believing that most of them are good at their jobs. Reality is that as the case with general population, majority are incompetent, careless, and well, downright stupid. Be it doctors with a decade long training/education, plumbers, lawyers, programmers, etc.
"We can do nothing about the stupid."
Sure we can -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent)</a>