Quelle surprise
Johnson gets all coy when asked a question about the ethical position of one of his "advisers"
It isn't an ethical position of one of his advisors - its one of his advisors stating some facts - namely black people (or rather African Americans) have lower IQ scores than white Americans... and then drawing some dubious conclusions/failing to be critical of the very notion of IQ testing in the first place. IIRC it was in reply to some post on a blog or something?
Was he being a bit silly/ignorant - yes he was, he's apparently a Psychology MSc grad... in fact worse than that perhaps, not an MSc from UCL's Psychology department but an MSc in "Psychology of Education" from the Institute of Education (also part of UCL these days).
That he's seemingly unaware of the flaws in the measure he's advocating for isn't exactly uncommon - there are plenty of psychologists, HR managers, management consultant types etc.. who will happily make use of things like IQ tests, personality tests etc... in dubious ways.
There are various people on here who've made even dumber claims about say Myers Briggs tests being somehow useful for their company etc... A few years ago there were posters like Castiel and a few others banging on about Mensa in a very cringe worthy thread.
Though of course this guy mentioned race and the press can take his comments out of context so he's going to be the target for the current cancel culture/social media outrage now. Not because he's done anything hateful but simply because he's got some science wrong in some blog post he made years ago. Though yesterday on twitter everyone was virtue signalling about how people should "be kind" etc...
