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A win for meritocracy - https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/new-chart-illustrates-graphically-racial-preferences-for-blacks-and-hispanics-being-admitted-to-us-medica

A win for meritocracy - https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/new-chart-illustrates-graphically-racial-preferences-for-blacks-and-hispanics-being-admitted-to-us-medical-schools/ https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/new-chart-illustrates-graphic...

manuelabeledo 3y ago
Then the headline should be: "Legacies are banned from top tier private schools". Around 25% of admissions in Ivy League schools are legacies. Unsurprisingly, this does not seem to outrage certain parts of society that much.
- Eumenes 3y ago
  That's bad too.
throw0101c 3y ago
Meritocracy may not be what you think it is, or achieve the results you assume. See recent books by Markovits and Sandel: * https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/24/20919030/meritocracy-book-daniel-markovits-inequality-rich https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/24/20919030/... * https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/21/20897021/meritocracy-economic-mobility-daniel-markovits https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/21/20897021/meritocra... * https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is... * https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/the-myth-of-meritocracy-according-to-michael-sandel/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/the-myth-of-m... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Criticism The word's modern popularity originated in a pejorative meaning which was then lost: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy Once people 'are in', they get more resources, and that allows for (e.g.) their children to have more opportunities, and so they then in turn win. If you have a person who does not 'get in' and 'win', then they have fewer resources / opportunities to show or develop what skills they may have: a doom-loop can become possible. As an example of what resources can get you: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Blues_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Blues_scandal * https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/rick-singer-mastermind-of-college-admissions-bribery-scandal-set-to-be-sentenced https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/rick-singer-mastermin...
- Eumenes 3y ago
  Okay, but race based admissions for college is bad and I'm glad its revoked.

manuelabeledo 3y ago

Then the headline should be: "Legacies are banned from top tier private schools". Around 25% of admissions in Ivy League schools are legacies. Unsurprisingly, this does not seem to outrage certain parts of society that much.

Eumenes 3y ago
That's bad too.

throw0101c 3y ago

Meritocracy may not be what you think it is, or achieve the results you assume. See recent books by Markovits and Sandel: * https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/24/20919030/meritocracy-book-daniel-markovits-inequality-rich https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/24/20919030/... * https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/21/20897021/meritocracy-economic-mobility-daniel-markovits https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/21/20897021/meritocra... * https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is... * https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/the-myth-of-meritocracy-according-to-michael-sandel/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/the-myth-of-m... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Criticism The word's modern popularity originated in a pejorative meaning which was then lost: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy Once people 'are in', they get more resources, and that allows for (e.g.) their children to have more opportunities, and so they then in turn win. If you have a person who does not 'get in' and 'win', then they have fewer resources / opportunities to show or develop what skills they may have: a doom-loop can become possible. As an example of what resources can get you: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Blues_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Blues_scandal * https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/rick-singer-mastermind-of-college-admissions-bribery-scandal-set-to-be-sentenced https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/rick-singer-mastermin...

Eumenes 3y ago
Okay, but race based admissions for college is bad and I'm glad its revoked.