Reference
Glossary
Core terms used across the Meritocrat.org research network.
- Meritocratic Provenance System (MPS)
- Proposed institutional framework for tracing, assessing, and correcting non-meritocratic inputs while preserving market information and incentives.
- Provenance
- The traceable causal history of an economic outcome or contribution.
- Provenance Auditing
- Proposed assessment of causal inputs to an economic outcome, expressed probabilistically rather than as perfect reconstruction.
- Advantage Index
- Proposed estimate of the proportion of an economic return attributed to non-meritocratic inputs.
- Provenance-Backed Securities (PBS)
- Proposed instrument layer linking economic claims to provenance-verified contributions or assets.
- Provenance Ledger
- Proposed record layer for contribution, identity, timestamp, evidence, and context.
- Performance Oracle
- Proposed measurement layer for domain-specific performance evidence.
- Contribution Decomposition
- Proposed process for estimating the marginal, interacting, and time-dependent value of contributions.
- Persistence
- The modeled continuation of a contribution’s influence over time.
- Synergy
- Additional modeled value associated with contributions acting together rather than separately.
- Epistemic Humility
- Design principle requiring uncertainty in provenance estimates to be acknowledged and reflected in the strength of resulting action.