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by bingojess 1968 days ago
Yes obviously which is why OP is asking the question.

And you aren't right, there are many games where there are objective scores or measures of skill like other have said golf, darts, billiards. What leads to a field being more objective is the presence of scores which can be compared and serve as the goal, and the score outcome is not based on luck or opponent play.

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Maybe not obviously, since this question gets asked in some form or another fairly often.

I used a game as an example of something that permits objective and quantitative scoring. Professional and technical fields don’t work like that. Chess and darts and tennis do.