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The 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.

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Being 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.

It 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.

I 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-GP... [2] https://blog.prepscholar.com/sat-percentiles-and-score-ranki...

In this case there should have been a very humble apology by now.

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