What is actually being undertaken is a project of depoliticization in surrounding the research itself—downgraded when failing to use the rhetoric of globalization as the overarching paradigm to dwell on the necessity of the national to be internationally competitive or upgraded for providing a beacon of utopian capitalism or socialism at a time of great deluge. Thus, the award for best thesis becomes the interjection to the real status of the scholarship, deemed otherwise as impalpable at this globalizing age.
Kung ang naunang modelo ay kailangang magpakita ng kanyang pagkabayani, ang kasalukuyang ipinaghahanap na modelo ay kailangan nandoon lang kahit pa sinasabing may X-factor o di-kilala (unknown) na substansyal na faktor na isinasaad. Sa pamamagitan ng catch phrase na “X-factor,” binubura ang obhetismo, ginagawang mas patron ang Bench o ang representatibong pipili ng modelo nang mga modelo.