University Diaries introduces me to the concept of “stupidity-aversive.”

A lot of people aren’t insulted by in-the-pits stupidity. Professors, as a class, really are. More than insulted. A lot of them can’t tolerate certain levels of the inane. I’m not kidding when I say that some of these professors physically cannot finish this test. I think these people should ask their universities for special accommodation, as some of their students do, because it is so difficult — to the point of near-impossibility — for them to take this test. I’m not saying that they absolutely positively cannot take it — I’m saying that while it might take stupidity-non-aversives, say, a half hour to take the test, it will take stupidity-aversives perhaps weeks to summon the strength to take the test.

Is there research on this? Can we get some scholarly backup and move forward? Because I think a wider recognition of this notion could really be useful.