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2021-04-04 -Great Cultural Revolution

University researcher: ‘Intelligence is a White man's mythology'

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-04 13:13|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 how about we just call her a dumb bitch

Posted by Chris 2021-04-04 14:39|| 2021-04-04 14:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Leads to the question that if intelligence is a white man's mythology, why bother with 'higher' education? Seems to consume a lot of resources better applied elsewhere.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-04 15:30|| 2021-04-04 15:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Graduate Assistants have to make themselves stand out somehow if they’re to become postdocs someday, never mind step up on the first rung toward tenure. But with that sheepskin in philosophy, she’ll be perfectly qualified to drive for Uber Eats, as long as someone generously buys her a car.

Graduate Assistant, Philosophy

As a philosopher of mind, biology, and cognitive science, my research focuses on the phenomena of cognition (anticipatory dynamics) and life (far from thermodynamic equilibrium steady-state maintaining dynamics). The central thesis of my work is that these two dynamics necessitate one another. I compare and contrast the merits and explanatory scope of conceptual and formal models of life and mind, and explore the implications of these considerations for some of the major outstanding questions in the cognitive and biological sciences and in the philosophy of mind.

Ms Andrews is wrong, though. Intelligence as she describes it is not a myth of the white male but of Western academia, which prioritizes academic intelligence over all other kinds, leading to paying a person with imbecile level social intelligence to assist a professor, whether grading undergrad papers using the provided answer key or stapling multiple copies of the handouts for the professor’s next symposium.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-04 18:32|| 2021-04-04 18:32|| Front Page Top

#4 And yet people actually do vary in their ability to retain information, generalize, and make associations. They also vary in their ability to apply information meaningfully.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-04-04 19:57|| 2021-04-04 19:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Well... at least she's beautiful.

Posted by Ebberetle Chavilet9598 2021-04-04 22:05|| 2021-04-04 22:05|| Front Page Top

#6 That face of hers just reeks of A$$ HOLE.

Posted by Clem 2021-04-04 22:06|| 2021-04-04 22:06|| Front Page Top

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