No more.

It’s not as though science has always been a pure meritocracy, however. For example, even I can remember, back in my youth, when women were discouraged in many ways from going into scientific fields, although it was possible to do it and to achieve some success. But many long years ago that situation ended and women were actually sought after. Same for black people of either sex.

However, it was originally thought that, once the correction occurred, there somehow would magically be de facto parity and each group would be represented in the sciences in approximate proportion to its percentage in the general population. When that didn’t occur – when the fact that differences remained in aptitudes for and/or interests in science at the tail of the distribution – the war on meritocracy bega