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I was about to submit some objection but it turns out you've posted quite interesting links so I'm going to ponder that for a while. If I don't edit this post consider that you've …

That's just an attempt to salvage meritocracy. The problem is that there is no single metric one could rigorously construct that encapsulates everything one needs for success, part…

I never implied that, in fact I'm pretty noncommittal on the matter and would do away with the baccalaureat (or maturite, or whatever) entirely. 60 years ago a test was hard and mo…

The problem is that we're being sold the 'meritocracy' narrative in the academical and technical circles. You often see it in HN discussions about hiring decisions (reasoning invol…

On the other hand most people in the 50/60s would also fail the brevet (or baccalaureat for that matter). I can't speak for the math level but I do know that school in the 60s requ…

Abilities are not normally distributed but power law distributed (a tiny elite of skilled people and a fat tail that represents the unskilled mass). This is one of the shortcomings…

If you are looking to learn Arabic but have always been scared by its perceived difficulty I cannot recommend language transfer enough: https://www.languagetransfer.org/arabic His …

Preliminary version of the textbook: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata... This is inspired from Lingua Latina per se illustrata , a monolingual textbook …