This is why you get marked down in grade school if you show your work on a math problem and it was by dumb luck you got the right answer. This is not a novel concept. The only thing that matters is predictive power.
Activision takeover has two possibilities:
No affect
Affect
It’s a 50% chance to guess the right one. If all you did was guess, then there is nothing to be proud of.
I have a watch that’s stopped moving, am I going to brag how good my watch is at exactly 12:37 every day? No, because I am not a moron.