Linguistics is a joke, barely better than someone who majors in Spanish, and this subreddit is nothing but an invitation to troll people based on not taking your joke of a discipline seriously. “Uh oh, society has a major problem to solve in order to make life better for everyone. Quick, call in the linguists!”. Meanwhile you can thank me for your fast internet connection, I design and implement the extremely complicated test and measurement equipment required for the provisioning of modern fiber optic communication networks. I might not know what AAVE is, but I know how to characterize a link of optical fiber using the round trip time-of-flight and received dB signal level of a series of millions of 5 nanosecond pulses of laser energy at various wavelengths interleaved into a continuous representation of backscatter power over time/distance. I know how to do so while taking into account index of refraction, chromatic and polarity mode dispersion, and helical affects… Measuring the speed of light to the hundreds of picoseconds is a byproduct of my every day activities.

Source: http://np.reddit.com/r/badlinguistics/comments/1oigtr/ratheism_on_the_correlation_between_intelligence/cctch3x

The SRD thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1osvrj/rbadlinguistics_links_to_an_atheism_thread_one_of/ccv8az5