Ray Friedman and his colleagues administered a 20-item test to African-American and European-American students before and during the presidential election of Barack Obama.According to Friedman,President Obama is inspiring better academic performance because the African-American students performed
A) better than the European-American students both before and during the election.
B) poorer than the European-American students before the election and just as well as the European-Americans during the election.
C) poorer than the European-American students before the election and significantly better than the European-American students during the election.
D) poorer than the European-American students before and during the election, but showed a significantly higher self-esteem during the election than before.

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The study suggests that the presence of a positive role model like President Obama may have inspired African-American students to perform better academically, closing the performance gap with European-American students during the election period.

Ray Friedman and His Colleagues Administered a 20-Item Test to African-American