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Mediocracy and Affirmative Action • Part 5
The Genius of Thomas Sowell
The Anti-Merritocratic Politics of Affirmative Action
Amy Mayer: Affirmative action is seen as an anti-nerritocratic policy in that it admits students to selective universities who wouldn't be admitted under a traditional academic preparation or capacity-oriented admissions scheme. The people of California have twice voted in very large majorities to deny Berkeley the ability to use affirmative action in admissions, so how do you explain that by the way given that California is such a liberal state pretty fascinating? Amy Mayer: I'm very interested in whether meritocracy is a good way of allocating undergraduate seats and I think there's a sort of very active research agenda trying to understand stay with us we'll be right back hello welcome to the red firm book review podcast!
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