Users can watch past debates, rate performances or vote in a parallel essay contest in which submissions are posted anonymously to prevent a walk-off by the better-known candidates.

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However, the admission rate went up to 68 percent for those people in the group who wrote an essay about a time they had power, and fell to a low 26 percent for those who wrote an essay about a time they lacked power.

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