> Your claim that this advantage exists is based on an assumption that you've accurately evaluated the likelihood that the people who were rejected would not have been able to do the research. I don't think you have reliable data to draw such a conclusion. As such, I don't accept this claim to advantage.

Coincidentally just came across this thread which discusses exactly how much of a fiction this is:

https://twitter.com/ThomasVanRiet2/status/162540854754145894...