In *every* hierarchy, the smarter/more ambitious will crawl to the top. Thus *every* system is a meritocracy of some form. The issue is how incumbents are held accountable and the structure of the ladder... https://twitter.com/jcbonthedl/status/1313250491179192322 …
Easier to design unthinking systems of evaluation in a monoethnic society. Any one measure is merely a proxy for what you're looking to measure and the correlation between the proxy measure and the underlying is different for different ethnic groups.