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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by pphysch on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:21PM (#29599531)
Meritocracy requires established experts to select candidates based on merit, which is quite different from the masses selecting candidates based on popularity (democracy).
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by hpoe on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:40PM (#29599671)
I 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.
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by xapata on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:07PM (#29600381)
I 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.
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