What benefit do they have in playing dumb when asked questions about the economy or finance? Wouldn't it benefit them to demonstrate how smart they are (in addition to their beauty and poise)?
exactly but then again maybe thats all ppl wanna see on the tv is beauty and who cares about intelligence?
People want the substance as well, otherwise they wouldn't pretend with a charade if no one actually cared about it. A bad answer to the question is not evidence of stupidity, but more of a weakness in the format. These women are highly coached on how to answer questions to the point where they're just following a formula in their answer, regardless of whether or not the topic on which they're speaking translates well to the formula. Also, they're asked questions of incredible complexity that our world leaders cannot solve with all the benefit of time and resources, and expected to come up with an on-the-spot answer and fit it in 30 seconds? That's one of the dumbest criteria for judging intelligence I can think of. If you can distill a complex answer into a 30 second soundbite, you probably haven't addressed the issues in the question in any meaningful way.
