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The problem described here seems to come primarily from the fact that nearly every single "meritocratic" measure that we use is highly correlated with income in
by hyperion2010 11y ago
The problem described here seems to come primarily from the fact that nearly every single "meritocratic" measure that we use is highly correlated with income in large part because income is a VERY good predictor of future success. Finding a predictor of future success that cannot be gamed by income is exceedingly difficult and of vital importance of we wish to continue this pseudoquantitative approach to measuring human performance as a criteria for admission to ever more elite opportunities.
- ploxiln 11y ago... or, for some of them, just correlated. Like expectation/demand of academic success in childhood.
- omonra 11y agoYou're mixing things up. Parental income can be seen as the result of parental traits that (if passed to the offspring) will help them in life - intelligence & industry. Ie the parents are rich because they are smart and work hard. Those traits are passed to the children - who then follow suit.