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The Death of Expertise
Tom Nichols
Hence one of our characteristic modern problems: some members of the meritocracy, as most moderate reformers admit, have become so impressed with their own importance as to lose sympathy with the people whom they govern, and so tactless that even people of low calibre have been quite unnecessarily offended.
The Rise of the Meritocracy
Michael Young
“Not everything that counts can be counted,” goes a famous saying, “and not everything that can be counted counts.”
Superforecasting
Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
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