[OC] Chances to attend a "Grande Ecole (Top university) in France. If you want to attend "ENA", the best university in France, you have 330x chances if your father graduated from there.camilo16 t1_itduf6p wrote
Reply to comment by Gavus_canarchiste in [OC] Chances to attend a "Grande Ecole (Top university) in France. If you want to attend "ENA", the best university in France, you have 330x chances if your father graduated from there. by pacmanpill
There's 2 different concepts you are merging. Merit and access to opportunity.
If I am hiring people based on intelligence and I hire the truly smartest person. That was a meritocratic selection.
If the person is the smartest because they were born to smart parents, got lots of academic support and an environment conductive to learning, that was unequal access to opportunity relative to other people.
A system can both be meritocratic and have a large disparity in access to opportunity, the concepts are totally orthogonal.
RazzmatazzBrave9928 t1_ithta2u wrote
This never truly was about intelligence, but about socialization. Read Bourdieu.
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