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> There are two possibilities here. Either the author of the Medium post was not capable of correctly parsing the sentence, or she didn’t care about truth and w
by sannee 7y ago
> There are two possibilities here. Either the author of the Medium post was not capable of correctly parsing the sentence, or she didn’t care about truth and was leveling as many accusations as possible in the hope that one would stick.
Either I am vastly overestimating the quality of american top university education, or the first option is highly unlikely. So, who benefits from Stallman getting removed from the picture? Or, given that the original author was also from MIT, maybe it was just some sort of personal grievance?
- roenxi 7y agoThe core of the drama is a MIT visiting professor has a poor grasp of social context and an inability to synchronise with other people. It seems totally possible that some graduate mechanical engineer totally misread a text. Mechanical engineers aren't known for being social butterflys.
- sannee 7y agoBeing capable to extract precise logical meaning from text is something everyone with STEM education learns in their introductory mathematics courses. It has nothing to do with social ability. > visiting professor has a poor grasp of social context and an inability to synchronise with other people. I am not that interested about the broader political context. I would like to know who (and why) shot Franz Ferdinand so to speak.
- roenxi 7y agoIt is unlikely that anyone was acting in bad faith here. Unless there is compelling evidence it is safest to assume that people were hasty and didn't stop to think and try to exercise a little tolerance and reflection.
- sannee 7y agoI think it is safe to assume that the author is super good at reading comprehension. The SAT [1] scores of MIT students seem to be in the top 5% of population [2]. [1] https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/MIT-SAT-scores-GPA https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/MIT-SAT-scores-GP... [2] https://blog.prepscholar.com/sat-percentiles-and-score-rankings https://blog.prepscholar.com/sat-percentiles-and-score-ranki...
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoIn this case there should have been a very humble apology by now.
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