Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? Evidence from MBA students
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Re: Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? Evidence from MBA students
#2The so-called 'elite' in the US, from politicians to journalists to venture capitalists and business leaders, are not looking all that great right now from my point of view, with a few exceptions.
Re: Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? Evidence from MBA students
#3Yawn. Call me back when it's been reproduced.
Remember folks, we cannot cherry pick from the failed science of psychology even when it appears to be interesting.
Re: Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? Evidence from MBA students
#4This paper contorts itself to reclassify greed as efficiency. Can greed cut costs? Well sure, but isn't that beside the point? It's like measureing GDP by the amount of dollars in circulation.
Re: Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? Evidence from MBA students
#5Key sentence:
"Analyzing fairness ideals, we find that MBA students are less likely to be strict meritocrats than the broader population"
Re: Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? Evidence from MBA students
#6People, animals, everyone look after their own interests and the interests of their offsprings. Any studies that might be conducted will, shockingly not, come to that conclusion.
You can't escape 3+ billion years of evolution through natural selection.
Re: Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? Evidence from MBA students
#7People, animals, everyone look after their own interests and the interests of their offsprings. Any studies that might be conducted will, shockingly not, come to that conclusion. You can't escape 3+ billion years of evolution through natural selection.
But the experiment compares MBA Ivy league students to the general population.
Yes, everyone looks after their own interests, but some more than others, like in this example the students above: > implement substantially more unequal earnings distributions than the average American
Re: Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? Evidence from MBA students
#8People, animals, everyone look after their own interests and the interests of their offsprings. Any studies that might be conducted will, shockingly not, come to that conclusion. You can't escape 3+ billion years of evolution through natural selection.
Human evolution actually escaped the trap of this short term thinking twice: first some 100k years ago, when altruism bloomed (see E O Wilson), and some 2500 years ago with the universal moralistic religions.
The group that maximizes their long-term reproduction is the one that inherits the earth.
Re: Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? Evidence from MBA students
#9Yawn. Call me back when it's been reproduced. Remember folks, we cannot cherry pick from the failed science of psychology even when it appears to be interesting.
I think we should be more generous, given the fact that we cannot reproduce many findings in our own field (computer science) given the hardware to do so is limited to such few entities...
Re: Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? Evidence from MBA students
#10Yawn. Call me back when it's been reproduced. Remember folks, we cannot cherry pick from the failed science of psychology even when it appears to be interesting.
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