This thread is insanely wrong because there's no feedback between "being right" and getting promoted in the fields where he's defending expertise. This is the key element that makes rating systems accurate.https://twitter.com/richienrg/status/1448016556357832705 …
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
There's an interesting aspect to how Affirmative Action plays out in practice that's closely related to this.
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Replying to @Chad_Kosciusko @CovfefeAnon
The way people think that Affirmative Action works is that the marginal non-NAM is replaced by the marginal NAM at a small cost to the general welfare with (supposedly) large returns to poetic justice.
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Replying to @Chad_Kosciusko @CovfefeAnon
What has happened in practice often enough is that traditional gatekeepers (usually communitarian centrists or bleeding heart liberals) sense that there's something wrong with abandoning merit and so seek to even the moral scales by taking on for the team.
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Replying to @Chad_Kosciusko @CovfefeAnon
They'll often do this by passing over the most qualified candidate with the rationalization that that candidate will have plenty of other opportunities. They (rightly) sense that losing out unjustly could have a bigger impact on the marginal non-NAM so feel for her plight.
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Replying to @Chad_Kosciusko @CovfefeAnon
This is hard to detect since most of the highly qualified only experience this in the first person and they didn't get to be highly qualified by positing external loci of control. Only when one sees it in the third person does it become clear.
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Replying to @Chad_Kosciusko @CovfefeAnon
The upshot is a massive loss to general welfare.
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So many second order effects of aff action all of which are horrible: Competence becomes an implicit rebuke to the people who don't belong in the job so The culture adapts and disapproves of competence The need to hide this means *any* standards in recruiting becomes taboo
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