[WFS]

I like what Chaz Bowyer had to say about scores:

It should be quite apparent to an objective reader that the quality of any fighter pilot's greatness, prowess, and/or leadership instinct is impossible to judge simply by the criterion of a 'score'.
Chaz Bowyer, "Albert Ball, VC"

Of course that assumes that the reader or historian is, or is even trying to be, objective. I'm afraid that real objectivity is even more rare than totally proveable score counts.