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That's completely and totally false. Please read the cited meta analysis, which is directly on that topic. What you proposed is literally the worst means of conducting selection outside of flipping a coin.
Literally everyone I ever hired performed almost exactly as I expected them to, but whatever guess I should have been flipping coins.