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Someone I know and like just share this, so lets break it down: https://quillette.com/2018/12/07/academics-mobbing-of-a-young-scholar-must-be-denounced/ …

For those of you who don't know, @Cambridge_Uni are in the news because they decided to hire #NoahCarl, who does #IntelligenceResearch, which is unsurprisingly just as racist and ableist and horrific as it sounds.

The academic community, including @CUSU_Disabled and @CambridgeBME then wrote this letter, which said article describes as a witch hunt: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqiHicJXPCWPZVXKdhyPTO9jHFgdXV08WdA6nPf0_k2j5Xvw/closedform …

First of all, continuing to use #IQ as a metric for #intelligence is dodgy, because the IQ test does have astoundingly #racist origins, and has been used time and time again to propagate horrendous racist and #ableist scholarship.

Secondly, yes humanities scholars signed the letter, and athropologists, and social scientists. That's because the field he works in (intelligence research) is interdisciplinary and can be approached many ways.

The screenshot in the article nicely leaves out the many many straight scientists that signed the letter. They also only link to the letter via @emercurial_ 's tweet, which is a calculated move - trying to make out like this is coming primarily / only from the students

Thirdly, a quick SOLO search of Noah Carl as author and then 'race' in any field brings up a good 5-6 papers with titles such as: Cognitive ability and political beliefs in the United States Verbal intelligence is correlated with socially and economically liberal beliefs