The persistent denial of the intelligence meritocracy: Gary Marks

This article conflates cognitive ability with merit in attempting to discredit all the "meritocracy bad" chatter by diving deep into how cognitive ability correlates with education and work "success".

Cognitive ability is just that: an ability. Having merit involves (or should involve: dictionary definitions for "merit" are a bit divergent here) achieving stuff, and to get there, you also need to actually put your ability to use. You know, actually do stuff instead of just being smart.