own with your torch. I think that should be deeply condemned, and we should remove the Statue of Liberty and give it back to France, you know, after we change the torch to a finger.

Well, believe it or not, I suppose there's a study about twins that suggests that it turns out — you won't believe this, this will be hard to believe — but rational thinking is genetically linked to intelligence, and it challenges the idea that decision making is a separate skill. So in other words, they found out that you can't teach stupid people how to be smart by teaching them how to think. Now I could have saved them a little bit of time because I once tried to teach my dog to read and she just refused. She never learned to read.

But no, it is not true that you can teach dumb people to be smart by teaching them how to think better. You know, Bob, I've been noticing that you're dumb, but I think I can fix that with a few tweaks. Did you know that if you were to look at, let's say, the information pro and con, you would get a better result? Really? I could? I should look at the information on both sides of an issue? Yes, you should, Bob. Why don't you try that next time? All right, I will.

And then what does Bob do? Does Bob look at the information on both sides of the issue next time because you taught Bob how to be a better decision maker? Nope. Bob will forget that advice before you turn around and walk ou