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When more and more people obtain the same qualification, the signal's discriminatory power declines, and the market spontaneously raises the threshold to restore its screening effectiveness.

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A Medical Student Asked If They Can Match Into Neurosurgery Without an A* First-Author Paper — Academic Credentialism Has Reached Absurd Levels

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