Don’t follow the leader: how ranking performance reduces meritocracy
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DOI: 10.1098/rsos.191255
Abstract: In the name of meritocracy, modern economies devote increasing amounts of resources to quantifying and ranking the performance of individuals and organizations. Rankings send out powerful signals, which lead to identifying the actions of top… read more here.
Keywords: performance reduces; top performers; follow leader; leader ranking ... See more keywords
Base Rate Neglect as a Source of Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination
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DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2023.00603
Abstract: Statistical discrimination relies on people inferring unobservable characteristics of group members based on their beliefs about the group. Across four preregistered experiments (N = 9,002), we show that accurate information about the composition of top… read more here.
Keywords: information; discrimination; top performers; statistical discrimination ... See more keywords