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...Kevin, if you weren’t so dumb?...
Avid followers of online idiocy, who have spent the last few years of their lives migrating from hotornot.com to Homestar Runner to the Numa Numa dance and beyond, might be unfazed if they heard the Internet characterized as a “dumb?? network. The rest of us, though, we discriminating readers of the online edition of The Crimson, we Wikipedians and fans of Google Scholar, might take a bit of offense at such nomenclature.It should come as something of a surprise, then, that creating a dumb network was among the loftiest goals of the founding fathers...
...that found, get this, that smart schools with less intelligent athletes do better in sports than smart schools with smart athletes. And, despite the simplicity of the result, Kuhls still gets the analysis wrong. It’s not that smarter students are worse athletes than “dumb?? students as he says, rather it’s that the recruiting pool for more intelligent prospects is much smaller than that of less intelligent athletes, making it harder to build a strong team with the former instead of the latter...
...don’t necessarily assume that you consider us dumb??but there’s a good chance you do. Not because we are unintelligent—but because we’re blonde...
Little wonder, then, that proctors feel they have to do things like, from time to time, raid harmless room parties, pull back the shower curtain and rip off the futon cushion in search of passed-out “dumb?? kids. An attitude as paternalistic as that seems to efface the idea that we are actually the “best and brightest...