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people with
mental disabilities is
considered archaic and offensive.
Moral idiocy refers to a
moral disability. The word "idiot"
ultimately comes from the...
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Moral idiocy is an
inability to
distinguish between right and wrong, or to
understand how
moral values apply to one's own life and the
lives of others...
- The
obsolete medical terms Mongolian idiocy and
Mongolism referred to a
specific type of
mental deficiency, ****ociated with the
genetic disorder now known...
- The B****oon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and
Idiocy is a
nonfiction book aut****d by
American actor Rainn Wilson. It is a
combination of a coming-of-age...
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familial basis,
proposed that the
disease should be
called amaurotic familial idiocy. However, its
genetic basis was
still poorly understood.
Although Gregor...
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Artificial stupidity is a term used
within the
field of
computer science to
refer to a
technique of "dumbing down"
computer programs in
order to deliberately...
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normal and 'abnormal' intelligence.
Binet and
Simon grouped children into: '
idiocy', 'imbecility' 'debility' and 'normality'. Each
category had its own set...
- Nottinghamshire, in
allusion to an
incident where they
supposedly feigned idiocy to
avoid a
Royal visit. The
story goes that King John
intended to travel...
- the
union of the
contiguous territories inhabited by
Mongols Mongolian idiocy,
outdated term for Down
syndrome Mongoloid, po****tions that show certain...
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cities [...] and thus
rescued a
considerable part of the po****tion from the
idiocy [sic] of
rural life". However, as Eric
Hobsbawm noted: [W]hile
there is...
