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ETS

Education Testing Service, presented as part of the testing apparatus that helped build modern meritocracy.

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ETS

Glossary

Education Testing Service, presented as part of the testing apparatus that helped build modern meritocracy.

Lecture claim on 2025-09-12.

model

James B. Conant and Henry/Harry Chauncey created the modern meritocracy through Harvard scholarship selection and standardized testing institutions such as ETS.

Timestamped Evidence

The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy

Transcript

"...Then, he got a new job at a new organization called ETS. You know ETS because it's Education Testing Services. They're the ones responsible..."

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The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · glossary, claims

Reading

The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...

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