Doping Versus Segregation in Rankings

Updated: 2025.08.14 2M ago 2 sources
The study lead says he’s comfortable with a performance-enhancing drug era star outranking a pre-integration star because the model bakes in era-wide effects. This treats chemical enhancement and racially restricted competition as measurable distortions rather than purely moral absolutes. — It challenges institutions to articulate how different forms of unfairness are weighted when judging merit.

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Who Was Greatest Baseball Player Ever?
Steve Sailer 2025.08.14 100% relevant
Daniel J. Eck’s quote: “I’m OK with a PED-laden person being number one, over, say, a person who played before baseball was integrated.”
Why World Athletics Is Right to Use the SRY Gene Test
Colin Wright 2025.08.06 55% relevant
World Athletics’ SRY gene requirement forces an explicit fairness principle—eligibility grounded in biological sex markers—akin to how the rankings model formalizes how to weigh different kinds of unfairness; both push institutions to specify what they’re protecting and why.
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