{"id":16908,"date":"2013-06-08T19:50:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T00:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16908"},"modified":"2013-06-08T19:50:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T00:50:48","slug":"geoffrey-miller-unm-fat-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/08\/geoffrey-miller-unm-fat-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you fat? You can&#8217;t earn a PhD, according to one Evolutionary Psychologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Miller, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/038549517X\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=038549517X&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20\">The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=038549517X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, has made a goof.<\/p>\n<p>Miller is an evolutionary psychologist with an interested in IQ, the usual sex related things Evolutionary Psychologists are interested in, etc. etc.<\/p>\n<p>On June 2nd he wrote this tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear obese PhD applicants: if you didn&#8217;t have the willpower to stop eating carbsk, you won&#8217;t have the willpower to do a dissertation #truth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The number of way in which this is wrong is myriad.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he&#8217;s in a heap of trouble. Here is a video from his university, the University of New Mexico, showing his department chair trying to do some damage control.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fmX_xlJ59Ks?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Good luck with that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing this &#8230; that if you are fat you are not PhD material &#8230; is not really a scientific assertion on the part of Professor Miller.  Rather, it looks more like a bone-headed remark he made because of something personal that happened to him.  Professor Miller may have demonstrated something useful, though.  If you are X stay away from Twitter because you are a jerk.  I&#8217;m not sure what X is.  Maybe it is just being a jerk. If you are a jerk stay away from Twitter because you are a jerk.  Hard to say.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Professor Geoffrey Miller is digging in and\/or backpedaling.  As you can see in the video, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.unm.edu\/2013\/06\/unm-response-to-tweet-by-professor-geoffrey-miller\/\">and indicated on this UNM web page<\/a>, Miller now claims that he is carrying out a research project in which he produces inflammatory tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think he&#8217;s telling the truth?  What would you do if you were his department chair?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Miller, author of The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature, has made a goof. Miller is an evolutionary psychologist with an interested in IQ, the usual sex related things Evolutionary Psychologists are interested in, etc. etc. On June 2nd he wrote this tweet: Dear obese PhD applicants: if you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/08\/geoffrey-miller-unm-fat-tweet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are you fat? You can&#8217;t earn a PhD, according to one Evolutionary Psychologist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3212,3743,3744,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4oI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}