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One more thing
"The Algorithm" was invented by the Medical Establisment
It was "The Algorithm" authors that got a Nobel Prize for creating a code to match applicants for a Medical Residency to Hospitals offering residencies.
Alvin Roth Receives Economics Nobel For Flawed Residency Match System
In the "old days" medical students would apply to hospitals and rank their preferences in a way that was visible to those institutions. A hospital would first review those applicants who had indicated them as the first choice. If spots remained to fill, a hospital would then look at those who had picked it second, and so on. You can quickly see how this system punished people who shot high and missed. They would end up at one of their last choices because the best places would fill up quickly.
Roth's clever solution was to gather everyone's preferences at once. By receiving match lists from doctors and hospitals at the same time, a computer could take the entire applicant pool's preferences into consideration.
In practice this means that if Doctor Jones ranks University Hospital first and it ranks Jones first as well, they will match. If Jones ranks University Hospital third, but her top two choices fill their spots with other applicants whom they prefer over her, she still matches at University Hospital. University Hospital will never know it was Dr. Jones' third choice. The system works well at what it does, which is to create a simultaneous match of thousands of people at once that is less subject to gaming than the old method.
Why then, do so few physicians embrace the match? (And why do so many actively despise it?)
The answer may be that if you look at every other elite professional training paths, whether law schools, business, PhD programs in the arts and sciences, architecture, you name it–there are no other matches. No other fields except medicine have concluded that this kind of system is a rational way to match applicants and schools or job-seekers and jobs.
A match is certainly an efficient way for hospitals put together a residency class. And going through the hyper-rational process fits in well with other cultural artifacts of medicine like memorizing a thousand carbon molecules to pass organic chemistry or spending six months studying for the MCATs.
But it's not a good system, despite what the Swedes may think.
For one thing, the match is tremendously family-unfriendly. Consider this scenario. There are two couples. In each couple both are pursuing professional careers. In the first couple, the husband is a medical student and will soon go through the match. In the second couple, the husband has an entry level finance job and will soon apply to business schools.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidwhelan/2012/10/15/alvin-roth-receives-economics-nobel-for-flawed-residency-match-system/?sh=7cb6aa35376c