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  1. Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure (Glencoe, Il.: Free Press, 1949), 139.

  2. Philip Green, The Pursuit of Inequality (New York: Pantheon, 1981); Barry Schwartz, “Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good enough,’” Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 February 2005, p. B20.

  3. Conall Boyle, Lotteries for Education (Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2010), 148, 157.

  4. Dael Wolfle, “Chance, or human judgment?” Science, 27 February 1970, p. 1201.

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Zimmerman, J. Merit and Luck. Soc 56, 360–361 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-019-00382-5

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