Posted on 07/21/2017 5:18:52 AM PDT by C19fan
This seals it! “Professors” (especially in the
liberal arts) are idiots. What an absolute fool. Close all schools. They are an absolute waste of taxpayer money and a pox on society. Every day these LIB morons plumb new depths of idiocy and lunacy. Meritocracy scares such pinheads as this because under meritocracy they would be cleaning up trash along the road...at best.
Hey, PROF! Your continued employment has NO MERIT! You’re Fired!
Let’s propose doing the same with current and new teaching positions and see what the professor says.
Not surgery, but enforced equality of all attributes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
Professor selection should be through open lottery too.
We already have a “lottery.”
Not every smart sperm finds a smart egg.
Many times there are mismatches, resulting in duds and supersmart whizkids.
It’s a Bell curve with long tails on either side.
That’s life.
Can you not wait to worry if your brain surgeon is one of these low IQ quota marshmallows?
How about your airline pilot?
Do we really want idiot low T quota babies in positions of leadership?
Oh, forgot...Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch.
Welfare and other government freebies should be given out through lottery too.
performed annually ...
for equality of opportunity, we need to have surgery performed on kids with superior intelligence to make them dumber
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Read “Harrison Bergeron.”
Joseph Soares must be a PhD. You just can’t be this stupid without an ‘advanced’ education.
“solve the problem of meritocracy,”
Meritocracy is a problem? I guess you would see it that way if you are a member of a group that is and has been unable to intellectually compete with other groups.
“...he argues that college entrance exams like the SAT and ACT “are predictively weak and biased, stigmatizing minorities as underperformers” and should therefore be disregarded.”
Ah yes, the tests are biased. Whatever little cultural bias in these tests was weeded out decades ago yet the grade disparity remains. The merit gap is real and if it bothers minorities they should work harder instead of arguing for a lottery. In fact, a lottery would only cheapen the accomplishments of those who actually EARN their admission. Affirmative action is a great example of that.
Another bubble-dwellling academic who has convinced himself the world is exactly the opposite of how it appears.
God save us from the tyranny of the mediocre.
The nano-second I saw the word “Professor” I knew exactly what field of “education” he was part of. That part of the “acedimic world” where ABILITY, QUALITY and hard WORK doesn’t matter.
Professor, how about adding your Lottery idea to the professional sports world. Baseball, football and basketball all have a discriminatory policy of demanding ABility, Skill and physical endurance before giving anyone a chance. How many inept, out of shape, and clumsy people are being unfairly denied their chance of glory.
On with the “FAIRNESS DOCTRINE”
In theory this would work as anyone in the top 10% are all about the same, again in theory. The problem you run into is not all schools are equal - so a top 10% in one school isn’t anywhere close to 10% at another school. The second problem you run into is grade inflation. There was a report just out that nearly 50% of HS students are graduating with an “A” average, which means there is barely any difference between the top 5% and the top 50% so why only look at the top 10%? Third, some kids get As by spending all their time studying. Others have to get jobs working 15-20 hours a week plus play sports a similar # of hours. I’ll much rather take a top 11% kid working a part time job with a good recommendation from their boss and playing 2 sports over a top 10% who does nothing else. Fourth, there is a problem of money. Schools need money to run and pay people like this “professor.” Not everyone in the top 10% can afford it nor even has the desire to go. Fifth, this could easily be abused and would likely involve a lot of close but not quite top 10% white & asian kids relocating their senior year to minority schools, pushing many AA out of the top 10% at their school and eliminate the reason for the professors proposal in the first place. If I thought about it for another 20 minutes I’m sure I could think of plenty of other issues with this, but suffice to say this idea is ludicrous.
>>To “solve the problem of meritocracy,” one professor argues that elite universities should use an “admissions lottery” to select which students they accept.<<
Ah yes, the problem of people advancing through their own efforts.
Clearly, this professor got his position by lottery.
Alternatively, we could let those who lack merit for any kind of productive employment whatsoever become a sociologist at Wake Forest University like Joseph Soares, or perhaps even the President of a university that hires people like Joseph Soares.
Do it. Make admissions 100% by lottery.
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