Skip the meritocracy in the NHL.
Practice more diversity so everyone does well.
But there is a problem here – it needs a little spin.
Will everyone be happy now that everyone can win?
Skip the meritocracy in the NBA.
Practice more diversity so everybody plays.
But let’s fix the problem for – the people who are short.
Anyone who’s taller must – walk up and down the court.
Skip the meritocracy in the NFL.
Practice more diversity so everyone does swell.
But with different sizes now – no one should get hurt.
Don’t push and shove just use a flag – no falling in the dirt.
And of course there’s baseball too – how hard can that be?
It’s well suited to play ball with full diversity.
Diversity – is the fix – for teams too poorly funded.
For every team in every league all will play 500.
(The Random Poet:05312023)
www.therandompoet.com)
<<<< selected sources include: Stanley Goldfarb – academic physician and former assoc dean of curriculum at the medical school at Univ of Pennsylvania – author of “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns” – regarding revised scoring of the Step 1 (USMLE-United States Medical Licensing Examination) exam from numeric score to pass/fail – “The solution to the fact that white students score better on the exam was to eliminate reporting scores” … “which makes about as much sense as Major League Baseball eliminating batting averages to assure that no ethnic cohort outperforms the others.”; Brendan Murphy – April 5, 2023 – American Medical Assoc – How the switch to pass-fail scoring for USMLE Step 1 is going | American Medical Association (ama-assn.org). In the AMA’s view, the previously used three-digit numeric score was detrimental to medical student well-being because it created a parallel curriculum to prepare for the exam and distracted medical students from developing teamwork and communication skills. >>>>
<<<< note: as requested (special Thank You to you know who), additional versions of Meritocracy and Sports coming soon for the following professions – air traffic controllers, bridge and aerospace engineers, law enforcement officers, nuclear reactor designers, professional wrestlers and golfers, Navy Seals and Army Rangers, heart and brain surgeons, Chinese to English translators, trapeze performers and professional knife throwers, and of course dentists and proctologists >>>>