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A test meant to find the best candidates must make perfect scores vanishingly rare, so that the top of the distribution can still be told apart.

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  1. Bryan Caplan

    Professor of economics at George Mason University and…

    First and foremost: Perfect scores should be vanishingly rare. Instead of clumping the best candidates together, you should be able to clearly distinguish the 99th percentile from the 99.9th, 99.99th, and so on.

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