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>The randomly selected applicants Why would you want to randomly select here?
by Imnimo 8mo ago
>The randomly selected applicants
Why would you want to randomly select here?
- energy123 8mo agoTo not have selection bias so you can measure the effects
- mikkupikku 8mo agoThat's the best way to do it. Otherwise all the money will go to the rich brat children of politicians/etc who are socially connected to whoever they put on the selection committees.
- gus_massa 8mo agoI agree that it's a problem. But how do you prevent it from been overflowed by people like me that can't draw a circle with the bottom of a bottle?
- mikkupikku 8mo agoDunno tbqh. Maybe the media will police it by shaming people who abuse it.
- digiown 8mo agoI'm not sure that's true. What kind of rich brat will go through the trouble of all that for a couple hundred euros a month? Random isn't a bad way of doing it in any case though.
- carlosjobim 8mo agoRich parents are masters of helping their children exploit the system in as many of the thousands of ways that exist. A few hundred here, another hundred there, maybe some one-off thousands here. In most of the world, rich people are rich because they are good at exploiting government funds. It's a lifestyle.
- left-struck 8mo agoRandom selection is possibly the fairest way to select almost anything, depending on your definition of fair.
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- seneca 8mo agoMostly because the kind of people who run and advocate for programs like this are actively hostile to the idea of merit. Prioritizing talented people would be antithetical to them.
- mikkupikku 8mo agoPrioritizing merit would be fine if there was some way to measure merit empirically, and if that measure couldn't be gamed by anybody with money and/or connections. But this is for artists, so...
- anigbrowl 8mo agoI bet you also think government shouldn't be picking winners and losers.
- pessimizer 8mo agoAnd thinks that s/he's a winner and the stuff s/he enjoys is made by winners, and the stuff s/he doesn't like is made by losers. Merit, universal, objective = ME; Worthless, narcissistic, special interest = YOU.
- AngryData 8mo agoWhy wouldn't you? How do you define merit to artists? Many of the greatest artists of all time lived their entire lives in poverty and desperation.