This is incorrect way to think about it. Because optics matter more than whatever skill may be involved. The way to think about it is to imagine a non tenured

This is incorrect way to think about it. Because optics matter more than whatever skill may be involved. The way to think about it is to imagine a non tenured person writing two identical grants. They take one grant and change their position to full professsor while other stays at non tenured. They are saying that the one that says full professor will get a higher score on average than the non tenured application.