People are ranked according to the school/job they are at, and the grades they got.
Watch out for https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/typical-mind-fallacy in this. There may be some groups for which this is true, but it hasn’t been my experience in any of the US or UK work or social subcultures I’ve been part of. Those things are inputs to evaluation and discussion, but are only very weakly correlated with any dimension of ranking.
In my experience, there is a very wide range of jobs (and former jobs!) that contribute to high status, and outside of academia, I don’t know anyone who cares about schools a small number of years past graduation/exit. I don’t recall anyone EVER caring about grades after school is done.
There may be some groups for which this is true, but it hasn’t been my experience in any of the US or UK work or social subcultures I’ve been part of.
Sure, many different social environments use different measures for status. In the post I talked about how people rank themselves based on wealth. Here, I mentioned how some people use school and jobs.
My main point was that we already have status rankings. It’s true that we don’t have a total order, global status ranking. But locally speaking, I don’t see what’s wrong with introducing a new metric for ranking status. I’m reminded of something I saw recently as a response to social anarchists who want to abolish hierarchies: people will just create new hierarchies along different axes in response to the revolution. We might as well just ask which hierarchies are best to have.
Watch out for https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/typical-mind-fallacy in this. There may be some groups for which this is true, but it hasn’t been my experience in any of the US or UK work or social subcultures I’ve been part of. Those things are inputs to evaluation and discussion, but are only very weakly correlated with any dimension of ranking.
In my experience, there is a very wide range of jobs (and former jobs!) that contribute to high status, and outside of academia, I don’t know anyone who cares about schools a small number of years past graduation/exit. I don’t recall anyone EVER caring about grades after school is done.
Sure, many different social environments use different measures for status. In the post I talked about how people rank themselves based on wealth. Here, I mentioned how some people use school and jobs.
My main point was that we already have status rankings. It’s true that we don’t have a total order, global status ranking. But locally speaking, I don’t see what’s wrong with introducing a new metric for ranking status. I’m reminded of something I saw recently as a response to social anarchists who want to abolish hierarchies: people will just create new hierarchies along different axes in response to the revolution. We might as well just ask which hierarchies are best to have.