The system could favour candidates with money to spend, although in Totnes a £200 spending limit was imposed.
There he had taken 12% of voters who favoured candidates with experience, and they seem to have largely moved over to Clinton.
One complaint is that the tests favour candidates with time to practise the type of answers recruiters want and that they encourage dishonesty.
All artistic positions usually favour candidates with formal training and qualifications in the form of a fine art, graphics or animation degree.
Outcomes in the constituency elections depend heavily, though not totally, on the local governors, who can, for example, give favoured candidates access to the media.
The board claims the test will enable admissions tutors to spot ability and will not favour candidates who have been well coached by their schools.
The accelerated timetable will consequently favour candidates with big name recognition and big war chests (to compete in expensive media markets).
For example, a behavioralist might use detailed election data to argue that voters in rural areas tend to vote for candidates who are more conservative, while voters in cities generally favour candidates who are more liberal.
Greg Dyke, the director general, said Mr Salmon was the "obvious candidate" for the job at BBC Sport, although it is widely thought that a number of Mr Dyke's favoured candidates turned him down before he approached the BBC1 chief.
Some think Oxford and Cambridge favour candidates from private schools, but others maintain that the universities simply want the best students – who just happen to be created at private schools.
