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Posted by PLOS_ONE_Group on 29 Jul 2013 at 21:05 GMT

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Publication: EurekAlert press release
Title: “Professionals often attribute applicants' success to personal traits, not circumstance”
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Title: “Grade inflation works - in schools and in the workforce, study finds - latimes.com”
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PLOS_ONE_Group replied to PLOS_ONE_Group on 05 Aug 2013 at 23:12 GMT

The following article represents some of the media coverage that has occurred for this paper:

Publication: Business Week
Title: “Colleges With Lenient Grades Get Six Times as Many Grads Into B-School - Businessweek”
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Publication: EurekAlert press release
Title: “Professionals often attribute applicants' success to personal traits, not circumstance”
http://www.eurekalert.org...

Publication: Haas Berkeley press release
Title: “Are You Hiring the Wrong Person? | Berkeley-Haas”
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Publication: Harvard Business School
Title: “Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway — HBS Working Knowledge”
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Publication: Inside Higher Ed
Title: “Study suggests admissions decisions reward grade inflation | Inside Higher Ed”
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Publication: LA Times Science Now
Title: “Grade inflation works - in schools and in the workforce, study finds - latimes.com”
http://www.latimes.com/ne...


Publication: NewsWise
Title: “Are You Hiring the Wrong Person?”
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Publication: The Wall Street Journal
Title: “M.B.A. Admissions Tip: Always Go for an Easy 'A'”
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Media Coverage of this Article

PLOS_ONE_Group replied to PLOS_ONE_Group on 09 Aug 2013 at 18:43 GMT

The following article represents some of the media coverage that has occurred for this paper:

Publication: Business Week
Title: “Colleges With Lenient Grades Get Six Times as Many Grads Into B-School”
http://www.businessweek.c...

Publication: Haas Berkeley press release
Title: “Are You Hiring the Wrong Person? | Berkeley-Haas”
http://newsroom.haas.berk...

Publication: Harvard Business School
Title: “Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway HBS Working Knowledge”
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item...



Publication: The Wall Street Journal
Title: “M.B.A. Admissions Tip: Always Go for an Easy 'A'”
http://online.wsj.com/art...

Publication: Wall Street Journal
Title: “More Doctors Are Leaving Medicare - WSJ.com”
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Media Coverage of this Article

PLOS_ONE_Group replied to PLOS_ONE_Group on 04 Sep 2013 at 17:53 GMT

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Publication: Boston Globe
Title: “The trouble with grade inflation: It works - Ideas - The Boston Globe”
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PLOS_ONE_Group replied to PLOS_ONE_Group on 24 Sep 2013 at 16:18 GMT

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PLOS_ONE_Group replied to PLOS_ONE_Group on 14 Oct 2013 at 20:58 GMT

The following articles represent some of the media coverage that has occurred for this paper:

Publication: Quartz
Title: “The psychological phenomenon that skews college admissions and hiring”
http://qz.com/110434/the-...

Publication: The Atlantic Wire
Title: “The End of Princeton's Grade Deflation Experiment? - Eric Levenson - The Atlantic Wire”
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