I wasn’t associating ‘ACE’ with anything, it’s the other way around… i.e. How do we know that anyone, associating any ‘ACE score’, with those far away from the

I wasn’t associating ‘ACE’ with anything, it’s the other way around… i.e. How do we know that anyone, associating any ‘ACE score’, with those far away from the average, is valid? as opposed to random conjecture? I have no opinions on whether any ‘association’ exists at all or not, but clearly at least a few dozen do, hence me asking the question.