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Law School Grades |
| Message Name: |
the M factor |
| Date Posted: |
03/15/2001 |
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Writing skills are highly correlated with the general factor of intelligence, and are more closely correlated with LSAT scores than with law school grades.
The law school exams are testing not only one's writing skills, but the ability to write like a lawyer, or at least how a law professor thinks a lawyer should write.
Thus the writing part of the law school essay exams is really the "L" in the formula, that mysterious quality measured only by law school exams, and not measured by undergraduate exams or the LSAT or by how much you prepare.
I've noticed that people whose parents are lawyers often do better in law school than expected. Perhaps some of the "L" is taught by their parents. |
| Message: |
being MALE. this alone adds a few points. although it is generally concealed within G, general intelligence.
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