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I think anything that declares itself as a performance improvement over the competition ought to prove it!
Such a contrast to other systems where for example your HS grades will count 100% - and similar "ungameable" systems.
The ratione behind this was "ending the school to prison pipeline." They saw the correlation between drop out rates and incarceration and thought they could reduce the latter by gaming the former.
This is why you see a lot of college dropouts from that corpus because they can't make it. They were lied to.
Why should I believe some object was _intentionally_ thrown here? Maybe it is just one of those random rocks.
Sorry to be pedantic. But space is really, really, really... empty. That's why the best name for it is, space.