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Outliers opens up with a discussion of meritocracy: see how Canadian hockey works, how soccer goes in Europe and South America. Think of the worlds of classical music, ballet, Olympic athletes. Those are all systems that have as their base individual merit, right? "Players are judged on their own performance, not on anyone else's, and on the basis of their ability, not on some other arbitrary ...