and Leggett, 1988) which posits that intelligence is not a stable entity and can improve through effort, this paper contributes a critic to the concept of meritocracy which stands on the construct of intelligence which is superficial and still struggling to reach a consensus on its definition. Th...
This paper draws on a literature in sociology, psychology and economics that has extensively documented the unfulfilled promise of meritocracy in education. I argue that the lesson learned from this literature is threefold: (1) educational institutions in practice significantly distort the ideal ...
virtually by definition, have greater capacity than the lower."5 According to Herrnstein's analysis, this scenario was inevitable. Although he agreed with Jensen's estimate that the heritability of IQ was around 0.80—i.e., that 80 percent of the differences in IQ between people were associated...
definition, certain mandatory qualifications. Such is broadly self- evident, but outside the cosy world of professions, this so-called axiom melts into a mere supposition, if not indeed a fiction. In any case, his preference for data encourages McManus to ignore too much of the real world. ...
Topocracy is defined as the correlation between connectivity (ki) and payoff (pi) Formally, we define meritocracy in terms of Pearson's correlation as: M~corr ~T,~p : ð19Þ By definition, when the network is fully connected, the system is pherfectly i meritocratic, since in ...
The term has come to frequently be described in modern day sociology and psychology as 'any act of judgment based on merit.' Although some disagree about what qualifies as true merit, most now agree that merit should be the primary concern for selecting an applicant for a position. ...