Quiz on "Shouldn't we discriminate for Black Americans?"

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Thomas Sowell said that:

Affirmative action helps blacks but hurts whites
Affirmative action helps blacks and whites
Affirmative action hurts both blacks and whites
Affirmative action hurts blacks but helps whites

Does getting blacks who want to be engineers into the best engineering schools help them if whites with their test scores wouldn't have made it into that school?

Yes, they would get the best jobs because they went to the best schools.
No, because they would do poorly compared to other students and flunk out.

What are the effects of affirmative action laws?

Employers can be sued for discrimination if the black doesn't do well so don't want to hire blacks
Employers don't know if the black person earned previous jobs because of talent or affirmative action.
More blacks graduate college engineering programs
Fewer whites get into the top college engineering programs

The SAT scores of Black Students at Cornell who were on academic probation were:

Above the average SAT score of all students in the U.S.
Below the average SAT score of all students in the U.S.
Above the average SAT score of all students in Cornell University
Below the average SAT score of all students in Cornell University