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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In an ever changing diverse and fluid world, why are some fighting for rigidly and narrowly defined merit achievements?

[b]What is a true achievement anyway?[/b]

How can we differentiate talent from cogs in the machine?[/quote]

In sports, it's usually pretty obvious - which is why sports are so popular.
In academics, I'd say getting all the questions right on a hard math test shows merit -- I mean just look at the curve in the class scores.  This can't be a serious question?
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It is a serious question.

In sports it’s clear, if you take performance enhancers it’s cheating.

In school is nebulous. You take performance enhancers in the form of test prep and other services, and it’s considered hard work. [/quote]

That's not the right analogy. studying and test prep is analogous to personal trainers and individual coaching.  The athlete still has to put in the work.  Plenty of UMC parents of young athletes spend tens of thousands on their kids.

Using Steroids would be analogous to using calculators on a non-calculator test.

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Taking steroids would be analogous to knowing the types of questions beforehand. [/quote]

In most sports, the athlete is given the "questions" beforehand (e.g. golf course layout).

In many academic competitions (math competitions and spelling bees come to mind), past questions/words are available for practice. Are winners of those events who practice the same as steroid users?

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Past questions don’t equate to types of questions on the test.

In sports everyone knows the standard and the trick. In academic competitions a puzzle has to be novel,[b] and if someone knows beforehand[/b] they’d have an advantage.

[b]Math is ne of the easiest subjects to cheat on[/b]. [/quote]

knows what beforehand - the question that will be asked?  How does someone know beforehand the question that will be asked?[/quote]

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