I can think of many, many good outcomes and not many bad ones. There's a human capital loss if the top math/science students don't get the most advanced training, but not much if we're talking about the social sciences and humanities.https://twitter.com/nils_gilman/status/1012772931829526528 …
Disagree. Graduates of social sciences & humanities tend to dominate media, publishing, law, politics, & other influential professions. If they're selected by pure merit into top schools, we might get brighter, more rational people in those professions.
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Only if elite schooling continues to serve as a signal. Random assignment would eliminate that, though it would increase screening costs it would open everyone’s eye’s to a broader talent pool.
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This is true, most MPs in Parliament can't explain the difference between the budgetary defect and the national debt, nor can they explain the difference between the balance of trade and the balance of payments, and don't even mention normal distribution...
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I'm sure there's a positive correlation, and I'm sure the correlation is less than 1.
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Likewise, only a small percentage of students are mentally prepared to benefit from a rigorous instruction in the differential calculus of turbulence in complex fluidic systems. That value would be wasted on lottery-selected simpletons.
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I wonder whether too much meritocracy would hurt on this front. People want to see surrogates for themselves on the screen.
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How do you define ‘pure merit’?
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