It's not really a crapshoot: It's a process with relatively few false positives and a fair number of false negatives. You and your "more-talented" friends are

It's not really a crapshoot: It's a process with relatively few false positives and a fair number of false negatives. You and your "more-talented" friends are likely all above bar by some perspective on it, and the process let a subset of those through. It's imperfect (the number of false negatives is obviously higher than desirable), but that doesn't mean it's random.