Yeah, a minima-ish statistic (even one less sensitive to noise) is probably not going to work for VC. Noise isn't the only issue - in VC the minima will always

Yeah, a minima-ish statistic (even one less sensitive to noise) is probably not going to work for VC. Noise isn't the only issue - in VC the minima will always be zero unless a VC only picks winners. A test in this general direction (but which handles noise) is much better suited for answering questions like "are colleges biased against Asians". In that case you have a pretty clear output (college GPA) which very rarely reaches zero.