What is the difference
Between ignorance and stupidity?
I guess I'm either being ignorant or stupid for asking this
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 0:41, 11 replies)

What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
I don't know, and I don't care.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 0:42, closed)

Ignorance
Is lack of knowledge of facts or details that a person would be expected to know - stuff like the Earth orbiting the Sun.

Stupidity is not necessarily related to lack of knowledge. It just means that you act like a twat - i.e. jumping into a river without knowing how deep it is and being surprised when you impale your foot on a submerged branch would be stupid. Thinking that the Sun orbits the Earth rather than the other way around would be ignorant.
( MatJ LOOK, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 1:19, closed)

yep you can be
ignorant and intelligent at the same time. you could be someone who's very sharp and insightful and a quick thinker but simply not have good general knowledge.
( wingphil, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 1:36, closed)

My take
Ignorance is a lack of facts - the building blocks of knowledge. This can be remedied by inserting knowledge
Stupidity is a lack of the faculties required to use your knowledge - an inability to put the building blocks together. This is much, much harder to tackle than ignorance, since even clever people might be ignorant on a specific subject, which can be remedied, but the stupid (who simply happen to be ignorant, because they're stupid) - well, teaching them is like trying to push water uphill. With a sieve.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 11:01, closed)

difference
You can argue with ignorance but there's no arguing with stupidity.
(Treacle Cock, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 14:32, closed)

I'm very ignorant about quantum mechanics
but that does not make me stupid.
( Bob Todd whee, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 17:57, closed)

An ignorant person doesn't know that a tomato is a fruit.
A stupid person, on finding out that a tomato is a fruit, puts in it a fruit salad
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Sun 21 Mar 2010, 18:03, closed)

^may contain elements of WIN

(Spidge New sig needed, donations gratefully accepted., Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:19, closed)

Stop being so much pithier than me.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 23:32, closed)

Ignorant is having to be told once, stupid is being told ten times and still not getting it.
(Benzyl, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 22:17, closed)

Well
now im enlightened ta :)
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 12:56, closed)