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==Forsooth==
==Forsooth==
"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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Forsooth

"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.

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