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Re:For Stanford Class of '94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Tha... by rayiner on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @01:29PM (#8789404)
Whenever you call something "meritocratic" it's almost always a circular definition. How do you define "merit" in Silicon Valley and how do you know the "most meritorious" are the ones winning? If you don't have an independent objective measure of "merit" other than "success in Silicon Vallay" your assertion is merely tautological.
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Re:For Stanford Class of '94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Tha... by rodgerd on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @02:51PM (#8789851)
I'd agree, although refine your criticism further: it's not so much a tautology as that "success in SV" selects for "people who appeal to VCs" which may or may not have anything to do with any other forms of merit (like the intelligence or technical merit people love to claim as being the underpinnings of "meritocracy".
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