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beambot on Sept 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Most US professors are trained at same few elite u...

The minimum bar (accreditation) is very different from top performers.

You may call every person who graduates medical school & passes the boards "doctor", but they're definitely not all created equal either. Same for lawyers, engineers, computer scientists, etc.

oneplane on Sept 23, 2022 [–]

But doesn't that mean that either the bar is too low, or the additional performance of top performers skews the entire field?

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