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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Score matters during the process. Today, do you care about the score of Super Bowl 17? The Redskins won...great run by Riggins on 4th and 2. But, the Redskins were champs. The outcome matters. Redskins one.

In academics, scores are part of the process for selection. Scores in the second grade do not matter after AAP selection. No one cares. No one cares about SAT scores after college admission, or GRE scores (MCATS, LSATs) after grad/professional school. No one cares about the HS GPA after HS, or the college GPA after a few years on the job.

Scores are used as a way to quantify potential (2nd grade) or knowledge (e.g. SAT's). No one will pay me a salary based on my SAT scores, though. Nor will they pay me based on my HS diploma, B.S., MA, or PhD. They pay me to do something that needs to get done.

When I had cancer surgery a few months ago,[b] I did not ask the surgeon how he did on the standardized tests. I did ask him how many of these procedures he had done[/b].[/quote]

For a moment I was concerned you had no glue what score meant from your concrete analysis.  But, I see you recognize in a surgeon the importance of the number and outcome of the cases he has done in your selection.  Those reps, numbers, and outcomes came from years, sleepless nights of endless toil, repetition and preparation honing the skill to keep you alive (same for a pilot).  This was not from endless walks in the park looking for less boring and less repetitious, workbook-like tasks, that somehow innoculate "more" meaning or "worth".  Before you picked your surgeon I assure you the score did matter to him or her (as it matters to you).  The surgeon has likely toiled to make the "varsity" and top dog all along (from every other night call for years, a rigorous residency training program that sacrifices folk who do not make the cut or "score"... Halsted pyramid training program and concept --- much like AAP and making the cut for admittance to TJ or Blair magnet.  It's obxvious you have zero clue about medical school training in the US or the history of surgical training. Your surgeon obsviously didn't tell or educate you about that part. 
Surgical trining is one of the bastions of good old rugged individual toil and competiton.  And the "score" mattered every part of the long journey. Do not comment on what you know nothing about!

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