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Studying for the LSAT / Re: Male Female Ratio
« on: June 10, 2005, 09:31:19 AM »
I have been very interested in this information for the past couple of months. Since I read this thread, I figured it would be an ideal time to actually look up the information that I thought was true. I had heard men score better on the LSAT. I thought it was strange since most of the higher ranked schools have an equal number of men and women, and an equal number or more women actually take the LSAT and matriculate to law school these days. In any case, here's a study that shows what several studies I read say. Men score at the extremes in pretty much every test and/or academic performance setting, meaning there is a higher percentage of men who score in the top 90th percentile of the LSAT similarly there ar is a higher percentage of men scoring in the bottom 10th of the LSAT, putting the large proportion of women in the middle. Does this indicate that men score higher? Perhaps, but at most it says, there are a larger number of men who score in the top ten percent. That does little to prove or even validly indicate that men "do better" in general. Perhaps there's a higher percentage of men than women in the bottom 10% than there is men than women in the top 10%. We're just going to have to keeep on guessing or researching if we want to know. I did find it striking that despite this truth about men/women scoring, law school grades delivered the same results which indicates to me that the LSAT is at least a somewhat fair indicator of law school performance. The higher grades of women and men in undergraduate schools translating to their performance in law school was less causally linked than LSAT. The results came out to be a higher percentage of men in the top and bottom ten percents and the higher percentage of women in the middle. Interestng
You can check out the site if you're interested. This is the most relevant, though there are several studies on the site
http://darwin.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty/guyot/testingatextremes.html
You can check out the site if you're interested. This is the most relevant, though there are several studies on the site
http://darwin.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty/guyot/testingatextremes.html
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