Professor identifies with high-IQ assholes

[supergee]

A prof at Indiana U. is in trouble for Tweeting an article that says, “Geniuses are overwhelmingly male because they combine outlier high IQ with moderately low agreeableness and moderately low conscientiousness.” [Indiana Daily Student]

Comments

[mrissa]

"I was only quoting" is a defense that was recognized as bullshit in my fourth grade class. "I didn't say she was ugly, Miz Thackeray, Susan said she was ugly, I was only quoting!" NOPE.

[oursin]

Does that mean that geniuses are obnoxious gits, or that obnoxious gits are geniuses, or what, precisely?

[amaebi]

What it mostly means is this dude is a noisy Christian misogynist. And a Yalie, one of the myriad data points in my dislike of Yale.