A Meritocracy If You Can Keep It

iSteve is discussing the subversion of our meritocratic tests (the SAT in this case) by preping schools. One wise guy who has it in for Jews discussed how they subverted the test and then let the cat out of the bag.

Jewish scores on the SATs rose accordingly, as did Jewish admission to the prestigious colleges that had established quotas to keep them out in the early 20th century.

Keeping Jews out with quotas hardly qualifies as a meritocracy.

So Jews fought back by figuring out how to raise their scores. Good. It ruined the value of testing? Well every subversion of “intent” to get results does that.

Slavery had a similar effect on our political system.

Evidently no elite gives way willingly for the betterment of the human condition. So be it.