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"If nothing you did in school had any relation whatsoever to the real world, you got screwed."

And, since no one ever gets screwed, we can therefore conclude that your original argument is correct!

Except that's not what I said. Too many people around here try to pretend that grades mean absolutely nothing. I doubt that nothing you did in school had any relation to the real world, and I pointed that out to you in the hope that you'd realize that the burden of proof in this argument rests on those who would try to argue that grades mean nothing. In the absence of actual data, which no one has provided, it doesn't make sense to give any merit to the anecdotal arguments of the minority rather than the equally anecdotal arguments of the majority.

On the contrary, I stated that grades measured the ability to get grades, which is almost tautological.

Demonstrating anything beyond that would require proof, hence the burden of proof is squarely yours. :)

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