Someone should test 1L grades as a predictor of the quality/duration of your friendships with your law school classmates. (I meant to make a joke at expense of antisocial gunners, but actually it sounds like a worthy theory.)
(thirty minutes later) I was drifting off to sleep and had this awesome idea for a poll you could do. Anonymously, (maybe create a website and hand out the hyperlink on a scrap of paper) ask 2Ls and 3Ls, "On a scale of 0-100 [i.e. 120-180, weighted] how well do you think LSAT scores, in general, predict 1L grades?" Then, ask for their LSAT score and the average grade they got as 1Ls.
Ask the questions in THAT ORDER, and I predict that the LSAT score will be correlated, BOTH with their grades, AND ALSO with "How well they think LSAT scores correlate with grades" -- which is funny, because pretty much everyone has NO EVIDENCE for how LSATs and grades correlate, except for their own grades, plus, if they're as lazy and as vulnerable to urban legends as me, some vague notion that scientists say there is a good correlation. Meaning my theory, if validated, says that people are capable of amazing amounts of self-deception.
I did a google search to figure out the correlation, but when I stopped when I saw this link -- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3735/is_200601/ai_n17179610/pg_1
-- AndrewGradman - 27 Mar 2008 |