Opinion Center
Merit Survey
 
 

 

Succeed Using Your Merit or Take Handouts

1.  People should be hired based solely upon their abilities to successfully perform the job.

Agree
Disagree

2.  As a result of affirmative action programs, individuals of minority groups realize that they will be given a job, entrance to a university and generally easier treatment throughout life.  Do you believe that this assurance causes individuals of these minority groups to work less hard and worry less about their performance? Yes
No

3.  Hiring quotas that require employee groups be proportional to those in the general population do not allow for excellence of any one group. Agree
Disagree

4.  If I were ill, I would select my doctor based upon a minority hiring quota system similar to those used by the human resources departments of many companies. Agree
Disagree

5.  I want to get my job based upon my abilities to be successful on that job. Agree
Disagree

6.  I want to get my job based upon my membership in an ethnic group. Agree
Disagree

7.  I want to get my job based upon my membership in a country club. Agree
Disagree

8.  The United States is different today thanks to 30 years of affirmative action policies.  I believe the USA is: Better
About the same
Worse

9.  The Bulls basketball team is 100% men over-6-feet-tall.  This does not reflect the diversity of the US population.  The Bulls should be made to put a fair representation of under-6-foot-tall men on their team. Agree
Disagree

10. Although things have changed for the better in the United States, affirmative action policies are still necessary. Agree
Disagree

11. The success of affirmative action programs is beginning to create a backlash. Agree
Disagree

12. Do you believe job promotions should be judged as on football, baseball and basketball teams: by on the job performance? Yes
No

13. Do you believe job promotions should be based primarily upon ethnicity and race or upon merit and competence? Ethnicity & race
Merit & competence

14. If you own a business or are in management, do you want the government overseeing your hiring and firing? Yes
No

15.  Are you tired of people whining about how "unfair" life in America is to their particular sub-group? Yes
No

16.  Are you fed up with having to succeed on your own, but witnessing excuses being made for others when they fail to succeed on their own and get handouts, extra points, and extra assistance? Yes
No
No, I'm a weakling and don't mind

17.  I am: Female
Male

18.  My age group is: Under 20
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60-69
70 & older

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