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Re:Meritocracies Are Unfair – and That's the Point by _qulr on Sunday December 20, 2020 @02:02PM (#25488655)
> If you talk to a random person they are pretty dumb, and you find random people at busses.

No, that's not how randomness works. If you talk to sufficiently many random people, you will likely get a wide distribution of people.

Besides, talking to strangers is not a good measure, because people are often guarded around strangers. Especially on the bus, I thought people who tried to talk to me out of the blue were a bit strange and to be avoided.

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Re:Meritocracies Are Unfair – and That's the Point by tyu2 on Sunday December 20, 2020 @02:16PM (#25488766)
It's also not random. I've talked a couple of times in my life to strangers in public transport, well, they actually talked to me, both times somehow accidentally people who I talked to were IT professionals, one was a programmer, the other one was a sysadmin and it was in the 90s in former soviet republic, hard to randomly encounter such people back then.
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