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For many, the most recent intrusion of politics into the vaunted scientific meritocracy came as a particular shock because the Obama administration's new guidelines had only months earlier fallen into place.
Scott delivers a vision of a pure and impersonal scientific meritocracy, and he envisions science and its locked-in binary implacability (leading to the ultimate binary opposition — life or death) as a model for societal integration.
My criticism of the new science prizes, which I rehearsed on the blog a few weeks ago, is that they reinforce conventions of scientific meritocracy that are already pretty well-served prizewise.
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If you needed proof that science is no longer a meritocracy, consider this: The finest scientific organization in the world is letting me publish a terrible metaphor like that one.
They spoke with Science Careers about their deep dive into bibliometrics, meritocracy in research, and the "moneyball" approach to scientific hiring.
Although the Italian scientific culture seems, at times, to be more of an "ageocracy" than a meritocracy, I believe that I was hired on merit and that if I succeed in fulfilling or, indeed, surpassing the expectations my employers, my efforts will be appreciated and therefore rewarded.
The rise of a global meritocracy offers all sorts of benefits, from higher growth in productivity to faster scientific progress.
It is then assumed, conveniently but with scant evidence, that standardized tests of intelligence are a valid scientific way of guaranteeing this freedom, by assigning people to their proper place within the meritocracy.
Support meritocracy.
"We are a meritocracy".
It's about meritocracy.
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