From several sources I’ve heard of this bizarre concept called “batch parity”, where you assume that everyone who joined a particular school or company in a particular year is identical. This leads to people passing up on opportunities because they are not given such parity.
I’ve been hearing of this from way too many sources nowadays so I wrote off a rant, on LinkedIn. Here is an extract:
So while it might be tough for people to stomach, this whole concept of batch parity is, to put it simply, nonsense. At its heart is the assumption that the world is linear, and that after a certain arbitrarily chosen point in time, people ought to all run at the same place.
*pace
seems like the comment is incomplete?
There’s an equally ridiculous idea where people expect you to be exactly as smart or dumb as when you were at school with them, completely discounting all Nurture arguments.
Completely agree! It’s related to this one – where people assume that things are “linear” from a point of time arbitrarily decided by them