re: #217 EPR-radar

The professors on the thesis committee need to sign off on it for the student to graduate.

I kind of wonder if they were bullied into signing off via threat of a well funded lawsuit. I’m reading the dissertation now and it’s really awful, I’ll post it at the end of this comment. I’d like to get input from klys and anybody else who’s gone through a graduate school program, because to me this looks like weak fucking sauce. 166 pages seems really short for a Harvard Ph.D dissertation. My Master’s thesis was substantially longer than this garbage and I went to a freakin’ photography school.

The abstract starts off with one hell of a whopper:

The statistical construct known as IQ can reliably estimate general mental ability, or intelligence. The average IQ of immigrants in the United States is substantially lower than that of the white native population, and the difference is likely to persist over several generations.

Wow, alarm bells anyone? Massive built in assumptions, endemic racism and cognitive bias at play, right from the get go. I can’t believe this even got past a preliminary design review.

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