Not an insignificant issue, but reiterated selection can breed it out.
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Treating people as individuals is a very reasonable idea, and could solve a lot of problems. The trouble is, the people who say we should do it aren't doing it themselves in any even vaguely rigorous fashion, and seem not to intend to do so, either.
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The proper way to do it, I think, would be with a ruthlessly meritocratic system that tested everyone with rigorous objectivity, wringing out every available bit of evidence. Every child would leave school with a thorough, reliable record of aptitude, attainments, and behavior.
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Predictions would be made for individuals after a rigorous analysis of all the data, and no allowances of the "affirmative action" type would be made at all. Not only is this not happening, but there is a war against this type of objective, data-driven approach.
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Right. When I get this "treat people as individuals" response, I've been kind of torn between "I never said we shouldn't, and there are various ways we should do this better" and "you can't do that all the time and you should use available data"
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It's 85% moral bullshit so you need an emotional argument to deal with it, sane logical reasoning won't work.
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Unfortunately yes
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