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The whole can be only as good as its parts?

Can the whole be as good with less-qualified parts?

1. Have you ever made cookies at home from scratch selecting and mixing each ingredient and baking the cookies to perfection?	Yes No

2. If you have, or if you can think about the cookie-making process, what do you guess would happen if you were making oatmeal raisin cookies and used less good quality raisins?	It wouldn't affect the taste of the finished cookies It would make the finished cookies taste somewhat less good & may be not edible

3. Have you heard that certain law schools are very good? That is, their graduates are often top-caliber lawyers?	Yes No

4. Have you heard that certain medical schools are very good? That is, their graduates are often top-caliber doctors?	Yes No

5. Have you heard that certain graduate business schools are very good? That is, their graduates are often top-caliber business managers?	Yes No

6. Do you believe that these schools admit only the best students into their programs?	Yes No

7. Have you heard that over recent decades these and other schools started giving extra admission points -- that is, add to entrance scores -- for some specific non-academic traits? This allows applicants with lower academic grades to rank higher if they have certain other characteristics considered of value.	Yes No

8. Have you heard that applicants at many of these and other schools are given extra points if they are of certain ethnic and social backgrounds?	Yes No

9. Do you think that the extra points awarded to applicants because they are members of specific ethnic groups and from certain social backgrounds effectively raises those applicants' ranks above other applicants even though others have better academic grades?	Yes No

10. What do you guess would be the results if any of these top-caliber schools lowered their standards and admitted less skilled individuals into their programs?	Graduating classes would be better Graduating classes would be about the same Graduating classes would be lower caliber

11. If you bake cookies today, will you use some raisins of a lower caliber just to provide each raisin with its opportunity to make it into your cookies?	Yes No That would make no sense

12. I know someone who had top grades, but was not admitted to a top school because he or she was not a member of a desired ethnic or social background.	Agree Disagree

13. I am:	Female Male

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