Click here to read the article from the San Francisco Examiner. If you're mad because elite private schools like Harvard reject too many Asian-Americans, don't blame affirmative action. Blame the preferential treatment for legacies. A Review of Psychological and Behavioral Research , by David A. Kravitz, et.al. Ten myths about Affirmative Action by S. Plous, reprinted from the Journal of Social Issues.
Affirmative action undermines the self-esteem of women and people of color.
A study of 20 years of admissions at UC Davis Medical School suggests that affirmative action does not lessen the quality of medical school students. Click here to read the article, from the San Francisco Chronicle 1997 Department of Education Statistics on diversity in college enrollments. For example, in 1990, the National Opinion Research Center found that Americans still assume that whites have higher IQs than blacks. The more educated the respondents, the smaller the difference they saw between white-black intelligence. See the results according to respondents' education level, and according to respondents' age , at sociologist Michael Kearl's home page.