Brandon O
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I don't really disagree with that, Vene. Like most certifications, the main goal is to establish a minimum baseline to ensure that everybody is at least at that level -- in other words to prevent the guy you describe from still doing 5:1. Hence, since instructors are also a source of potential suck, the attempt to standardize everything by video and test. I don't think it's wrong to improve upon this if you're able, but I also think that 99% of instructors believe they understand the material as well or better than the authors, and 98% of them are wrong. There is a reason why it was assembled this way, and although that reason is full of compromises and lesser-evils, we can do much worse than cleaving everybody to the same "good enough" arbitrary standard.
As sad as it is, we're not going to make 100% of the population into magnificent masters of resuscitation, and that's not where the greatest benefits are anyway. It's in bringing up or knocking out the duds who are blowing the fundamentals. It's not as fun and I prefer the first one, but focusing our attention on the top 1% is like Wall Street discussing how to convert the improverished third world from analog to digital radio.
As sad as it is, we're not going to make 100% of the population into magnificent masters of resuscitation, and that's not where the greatest benefits are anyway. It's in bringing up or knocking out the duds who are blowing the fundamentals. It's not as fun and I prefer the first one, but focusing our attention on the top 1% is like Wall Street discussing how to convert the improverished third world from analog to digital radio.