Again, note in passing how, in a realm of egalitarian team synergy, as in that of human intelligence, "inequalities" in merit often derive from "differences" in talents, leanings, and abilities, such multidimensional differences in personality (see Wolf et al. 2007 on the evolution of animal personalities) often improving the whole team's synergistic capacity instead of lessening it.
After all, the star system, with wildly unequal rewards for relatively small differences in talent, holds in virtually every area of American society.
The lesser performance on family-owned business boards does not seem to be related to major differences in talent on FOB and non-FOB boards.
Still, real differences among the individuals have since come to light, chiefly differences in talent, and Armantrout is by an order of magnitude the best poet of the group.
Because Obama is considered a historically talented politician, Clinton a workmanlike one, and Edwards a charming faker, you expect the differences in talent to be plain, for Clinton and Edwards to seem small by comparison.
Despite popular belief that income inequality largely reflects individual differences in talent and motivation, there are also significant structural and cultural causes, such as segmented labour markets, discrimination, institutionalized racism and sexism, gender roles, and family responsibilities.
Instead, we must take out of our hands the decision to help and commit ourselves to fair policy policy designed to ensure that our country's institutions treat individuals equally, offer them equal access to opportunities, and correct for luck-based differences in talent or wealth, typically at life's start.
More generally, differences in effort should be reflected in differences in reward, but differences in talent should not.
Michael Reiss, professor of science education at UCL Institute of Education, argues that dividing school pupils by ability encourages this idea of differences in talent rather than application.
