"If China is harnessing the meritocratic idea and America at the same time is softening meritocracy, America loses. China becomes a massive version of Singapore. America becomes a version of Brazil. They win." Interview with Adrian Wooldridgehttps://www.aei.org/economics/is-the-united-states-really-meritocratic-my-long-read-qa-with-adrian-wooldridge/ …
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Then again: Who trusts Chinese academic grades? Even I’ve met Chinese students in Germany openly boasting that their undergraduate documents were fake.
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If you get to pick students with better applications as the Harvard admissions committee views them and I get to pick students with rich parents it's a near certainty that I'll get the ones with higher IQ.
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