"joglynne
Calling anyone a carrot may sound amusing, silly, or just 'off the cuff' insensitive but it is still an insult."
it may be insulting in some context but he was trying rather badly to give some sort of description to the numbers of IQ i think the reaction of complaining about it was a little over the top and insulting in the same manner as the the first description
by the way i don't intend to complain about it