As it turns out, this was a profoundly dumb line of reasoning.
Girls are just as likely to be "dumb and stupid" as boys, so that reasoning doesn't exactly ring true.
"I thought that was the dumbest idea I'd ever heard," he recalled, reasoning that Caltrans would yank it down and his work would wind up in some office or flea market.
She also obtained her private pilot certificate when she was in her fifties, reasoning, "If something happened to your pilot, how dumb would you feel flying around, waiting to run out of gas?
Animals may not be as smart as humans, but that doesn't mean they are as dumb as thermometers (see Hurley & Nudds 2006 and Carruthers (2006) on reasoning in animals).
I'll put aside the fact that broadcasting your distaste for an entire race, or multiple races, in the year 2017 is really dumb in addition to being racist as fuck, and just challenge the reasoning here head on.
I had done such a dumb-shit thing to her, all the time thinking it was sound reasoning, because isn't that how it is with our heads, when we are in them it always makes sense, but then later, when you look back, we sometimes are like, I am acting like a total dumb-ass!
Economists are justly proud of the close reasoning that produced the classical case for free trade, and love to skewer dumb protectionist arguments.
The cliché of the learned professor, as inept in practical tasks as he is skilled in theoretical reasoning, is just as much a leitmotif of popular culture as that of the dumb jock.
