Meritocracy vs Scientocracy - What's the difference?
meritocracy | scientocracy |
Rule by merit, and talent. By extension, now often used to describe a type of society where wealth, income, and social status are assigned through competition.
English words suffixed with -cracy
An elite community of scientists.
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The practice of basing public policies on science. A government of the people, but informed by scientists.
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As nouns the difference between meritocracy and scientocracy
is that meritocracy is rule by merit, and talent by extension, now often used to describe a type of society where wealth, income, and social status are assigned through competition while scientocracy is an elite community of scientists.meritocracy
English
(wikipedia meritocracy)Noun
(meritocracies)Usage notes
Though widely used as a term of praise,Meritocracy's Lab Rat, by Timothy Noah the term was original coined as a satire, and a critique of awarding educational achievement.