 Another way to have social orderings in spite of Arrow’s theorem is to allow people to contribute more ordinal information about their preferences than is admissible within Arrow’s framework. Arrow’s purpose in limiting individual inputs to weak orderings of the alternatives was to exclude cardinal information about utilities. This limitation, though, is too tight for its purpose. One way for people to communicate their preferences is to grade their alternatives. Now, although in general grades do not carry cardinal information, Arrow’s framework has no provision for people to input their preferences using them. This might seeem a small oversight on Arrow’s part but it is critical, because there are ways of aggregating graded inputs that are not avaliable for preferance orderings, and with them comes another “escape” from Arrow’s impossibility. Showing how it goes requires a slight extension of Arrow’s framework.