Despite clear evidence that meritocratic systems fail (NIH grant scoring, LSAT design, surgical attribution, relative age effect), institutions remain 'powerfully incurious' about fixing these problems, suggesting systemic resistance rather than ignorance.
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Malcolm GladwellEvidence Quote
“for some reason we are powerfully incurious about the problems that we have created with our meritocracies...when we're presented with evidence of the falsity of our of our systems what do we do we do nothing”
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