Re:Do the math: too much calculus? (2012)
by Retric on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:49PM
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This also causes some odd results. If the MIT/Caltech/Harvard/etc student bodies are generally less intelligent than you might expect and often boring people.
You see the same thing at most national level high school competitions. The surface details may seem very diverse, but underneath that they tend to have a lot in common.
Over the last decades, we're increasingly seeing this in academia (publish or perish), the corporate world (boost the bottom-line at the expense of everything else), politics (win the election even if you have to burn your own party to the ground), and many other walks of life, as the world has gotten more competitive.
To fix this, you can either fix the objective (which may be very difficult), or you can reduce the level of competition.