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WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 14,131
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Need to end standardized tests. Pretty obvious conclusion. If the dazzler can practice, anyone can practice. Just lower the performance bar. Works every time.

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WHY IS THE CALIFORNIA BAR SO RACIST? Racial Disparities Persist In California Bar Exam Pass Rates: White: 72%, Asian: 66%, Hispanic: 61%, Black: 31%.

Actually, we looked into this kind of thing among our own graduates some years back, and it turns out that bar passage rates correlate pretty tightly with LSAT scores. This isn’t surprising: One’s a big stressful law-related exam, and the others a bigger, more stressful law-related exam. So if you admit a cohort with lower LSAT scores, that cohort will tend to have a lower bar passage rate. And it’s not linear — there’s a cutoff below which the passage rate plummets sharply. This is, in fact, well-known in legal academia. Many think it’s immoral to admit students at or below that cutoff because their chance of passing the bar is so low. But many schools do so anyway.
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    EsophagealFecesEsophagealFeces Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,504
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    Are you trying to imply that race weighting admissions to law schools plays out on bar exams?
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    BendintheriverBendintheriver Member Posts: 5,454
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    WestlinnDuck said:

    Need to end standardized tests. Pretty obvious conclusion. If the dazzler can practice, anyone can practice. Just lower the performance bar. Works every time.

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

    WHY IS THE CALIFORNIA BAR SO RACIST? Racial Disparities Persist In California Bar Exam Pass Rates: White: 72%, Asian: 66%, Hispanic: 61%, Black: 31%.

    Actually, we looked into this kind of thing among our own graduates some years back, and it turns out that bar passage rates correlate pretty tightly with LSAT scores. This isn’t surprising: One’s a big stressful law-related exam, and the others a bigger, more stressful law-related exam. So if you admit a cohort with lower LSAT scores, that cohort will tend to have a lower bar passage rate. And it’s not linear — there’s a cutoff below which the passage rate plummets sharply. This is, in fact, well-known in legal academia. Many think it’s immoral to admit students at or below that cutoff because their chance of passing the bar is so low. But many schools do so anyway.

    It is immoral to subject the public to lawyers who are incapable of representing their clients with the most educated defense. I guess rats could give a shit. It will give them something else to bitch about when their constituents get horrible representation.
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    greenbloodgreenblood Member Posts: 14,285
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    Libs have the answer. Since they believe minorities are dumber, just lower the bar passing score for minority test takers.
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