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[quote=Anonymous][quote][b]Score matters during the process. [/b]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, 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.[/quote]

If the score matters during the process (eg, education -- K through 12) what's so surprising folk work hard to get into gifted programs (like trying to make the Pro team in camp, the Varsity high school team  or the Olympic team)?

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