Month: December 2025

Testing Assumptions: Meritocracy

Post author By testingapersonalhistory
Post date December 8, 2025
Categories In Everythingisatest

My dear friend Zeineb Mahzouz sent me an article that drills into a subject that surfaces again and again in my stew of concerns: meritocracy.

TESTING ASSUMPTIONS: NOT BORN YESTERDAY BY HUGO MERCIER

Post author By testingapersonalhistory
Post date December 6, 2025

The subtitle of this book is The Science Of Who We Trust And What We Believe, and its purpose is to disabuse us of ideas about how we decide, who we can have faith in, and what we should accept as real. Mercier, research director at the CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, is of the […]