I'm not asking this sarcastically. I mean it sincerely. Are we stupid?

Well we are at the top of the food chain. We are not the biggest, or the fastest or the ones with the most teeth.

So we must be doing something right, could just be that we are the most ruthless.

Have you heard of the computer Watson? That is just a recent computer that can answer questions. In some time, there will be far more advanced and astute answering machines, although their higher "intelligences" are not very required. Most jobs, which make use of computers, do not need high levels of computation. How do we judge any variable, if not a scale of greatest to least? How "intelligent" are we to the most advanced computation devices? What of intelligence? Don't the stupid survive, if not thrive at times? What is intelligence? What is stupidity? If smart is having knowledge, than it is being knowledgeable. Does iq measure intelligence? What than is intelligence?

Humanity's intelligence has dropped a lot since the times when Einstein or De Vinci lived. yes, we know a lot more about the environment and "how-things-work" than they did, but we don't care as much about books as they did and we don't have as much as a desire to learn as they did. The children of our era don't want to learn about how their country/state/island/etc. was constructed. I think that technology plays a huge part in humanity's ignorance, but no, not EVERYONE is "stupid", just most of us.

Because 'stupid' is comparative and no 'intelligent life' (if any) has not been smart enough to discover us-or is unintelligently weak to be in hiding from us-then there is no evidence to suggest that we are not the brightest conceivable however thick most of us are when a few compare themselves to us.

We're not neccessarily 'stupid' per say, since we've solved some 'mysteries' and even invented cars and washing machines. Maybe we haven't discovered everything yet (maybe because it keeps building itself) but we've already discovered quite enough to know that we're geniuses in our own selves.

BUT THEN AGAIN.. Depends who or what you compare us with.

If you compare us with the internet, then yes, we are stupid.

But in this world, compared to any other living thing in this Earth, we are the most intelligent species.

...and compared to God, we know nothing.

I guess what makes us smart in 'this world' compared to other animals is our capacity to understand, rationalize, make decisions based on our beliefs, experiences and morals, and to be able to relate to other people without a word. I really think human beings are beautiful. Which makes God like.. Infinite more beautiful since He made us in His own image.

As Spongebob Squarepants definitely said, the stupidest humans are those who aren't aware of their infinite stupidity

average IQ is 100 . yale records show that bush has a 89 IQ , that is higher than forrest gump , but below average , and he got to be president .

Nobody is stupid.

You may be ignorant, which is choosing to ignore, or

you may be mentally impaired.

To quote from a movie, "Stupid is as stupid does".

Everyone, no, 99%, yes.