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"The LSAT predicted 14 percent of the variance between the first-year grades. And it did a little better the second year: 15 percent. Which means that 85 percent of the time it was wrong." | "The LSAT predicted 14 percent of the variance between the first-year grades [in a study of 981 University of Pennsylvania Law School students]. And it did a little better the second year: 15 percent. Which means that 85 percent of the time it was wrong." | ||
<div align=right>--Lani Guinier, in: ''The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America'' (Beacon Press 2015), p. 19. </div> | <div align=right>--Lani Guinier, in: ''The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America'' (Beacon Press 2015), p. 19. </div> | ||
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"The LSAT predicted 14 percent of the variance between the first-year grades [in a study of 981 University of Pennsylvania Law School students]. And it did a little better the second year: 15 percent. Which means that 85 percent of the time it was wrong."
--Lani Guinier, in: The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America (Beacon Press 2015), p. 19.
Submitted by Margaret Cibes