Every year in China, 10 million high school students sit down for a two- or three-day test that will make or break their future.

The Gaokow is the single indicator that is used to determine who is going to get into a selective college and who isn't,

who is going to move forward and who is going to be left behind.

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We'll be back in a second to talk about how a tiny difference of just a point can be magnified into something that changes everything.

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Everywhere we look in our modern world, we are seeing the magnification of small differences.

Just a couple points on the SAT determines whether or not someone gets into a famous college.

That helps make a difference as to whether or not they got into a famous law school.

Then effort combined with luck determines whether they made law review or just missed it.

Making law review helps them get a clerkship for a federal judge.

Not making law review makes that really difficult.

A clerkship for a federal judge is magnified into the fast track and then maybe one day you end up on the Supreme Court,

all because of a six point difference on your SATs.

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