Author of research linking slavery and intelligence resigns | Education | M&G

  • 📰 mailandguardian
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 26 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 14%
  • Publisher: 92%

Education Education Headlines News

Education Education Latest News,Education Education Headlines

A University of Cape Town adjunct professor, who co-authored a study which concluded that fewer slaves were taken from African countries with a higher average IQ, resigned at 1am on Wednesday.

”, was co-authored by Professor Simplice Asongu and Oasis Kodila-Tedika. Asongu’s stated affiliation in the study was to the Development Finance Centre at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business. Kodila-Tedika’s affiliation was to the Department of Economics at the University of Kinshasa. Its aim was to see if there was a link between “cognitive ability or intelligence on slave exports from Africa”.

The study came to this conclusion by looking at how “intelligent individuals are endowed with capabilities which enable them to easily compromise and find solutions”. These slaves, it said, would be more likely to revolt, so slavers focused on the slave’s “manpower or physical ability”.

In a response that copied in people from UCT’s Graduate School of Business, Asongu said: “I have asked the publisher and editor to remove the affiliation of the University of Cape Town from the forthcoming article.”

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

I'm baffled and staying to establish his motive

And people wonder why there's such brutality in the country.

very flawed and biased conclusions.... this is a racist study

Kodwa Jeso!!!

It's a racist study, with flawed and biased conclusions!

I wasn't even aware that they had a Department of Pointlessly Racist Studies.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 2. in EDUCATİON

Education Education Latest News, Education Education Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Don’t drop the ball, for our children’s sake | Education | M&G
Source: mailandguardian - 🏆 2. / 92 Read more »