 The most common form of meritocratic screening found today is the college degree.Higher education is an imperfect meritocratic screening system for various reasons, such as lack of uniform standards worldwide, lack of scope (not all occupations and processes are included), and lack of access (some talented people never have an opportunity to participate because of the expense, most especially in developing countries).Nonetheless, academic degrees serve some amount of meritocratic screening purpose in the absence of a more refined methodology.