3 ms·
Meritocracy requires established experts to select candidates based on merit, which is quite different from the masses selecting candidates based on popularity
by pphysch 5y ago
Meritocracy requires established experts to select candidates based on merit, which is quite different from the masses selecting candidates based on popularity (democracy).
- hpoe 5y agoI disagree with the experts part, after all under meritocracy Einstein is the greatest scientific mind of the 20th century however he wasn't even able to get a job in academia until after he produced ground breaking results.
- xapata 5y agoI think that was the implication -- that experts are often wrong. One could go the No True Scotsman route and say that a true expert would occasionally select randomly following a Bayesian Bandit approach for optimal decision-making.