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The Replacement of the Technical Definition of Merit With the Idea of Equity
Heather Cevallos: The idea of merit has been subverted or replaced by this insistence that there are any differences in representation of population by group category. She says axiomatic a priori presumption of prejudice based on the mere observation of differential group representation is not only faulty, but faulty enough to threaten the entire enterprise of merit itself. "There's no reason to presume that what we would get out of that wouldn't be something far worse," she says.