Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The gap in college completion between high-status graduates and low-status graduates has decreased since the early 1970s.

2. Affirmative action at selective schools has mainly benefitted middle to upper-middle class Black students.

3. Not all people with college degrees have outstanding careers, but few people now achieve important positions without them.

4. Blau and Duncan conceptualized chains of causation and multiple causal pathways by using structural equation modeling.


1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE

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