If a manager gives one employee a diamond to polish and one employee a turd, how will he know who did a better job if all he considers is the end result?
Sorry, end results don’t count. If the turd polisher was expected to do a crappy job and did a poor job, he’d get an A+.
If the diamond polisher was expected to do an outstanding job and did a merely excellent job, he’d flunk and be fired.
On the bright side, we’ll have a nation of crappy turd polishers.