psychomohel wrote:What does it mean to predict 16% of your grades?Panther7 wrote:As quoted by LSAC, 16% of you grades can be predicted by the LSAT, 4% by GPA. I don't think it's by coincidence that schools use the LSAT so heavily.
I just looked it up, and apparently the median correlation of UGPA+LSAT and first year grades is .46, where 1 is a perfect correlation and 0 is no correlation at all.Panther7 wrote:psychomohel wrote:What does it mean to predict 16% of your grades?Panther7 wrote:As quoted by LSAC, 16% of you grades can be predicted by the LSAT, 4% by GPA. I don't think it's by coincidence that schools use the LSAT so heavily.
the correlation factor, statistics thing... r squared, all that jazz. basically there is a 16% direct relationship between LSAT scores and LS GPA.
that's r factor, to get direct correlation or whatever you need to square that number, which gives you like .21, supposedly .16 of that is directly related to LSAT, the rest the UGPA.psychomohel wrote:I just looked it up, and apparently the median correlation of UGPA+LSAT and first year grades is .46, where 1 is a perfect correlation and 0 is no correlation at all.Panther7 wrote:psychomohel wrote:What does it mean to predict 16% of your grades?Panther7 wrote:As quoted by LSAC, 16% of you grades can be predicted by the LSAT, 4% by GPA. I don't think it's by coincidence that schools use the LSAT so heavily.
the correlation factor, statistics thing... r squared, all that jazz. basically there is a 16% direct relationship between LSAT scores and LS GPA.
This.Panther7 wrote:that's r factor, to get direct correlation or whatever you need to square that number, which gives you like .21, supposedly .16 of that is directly related to LSAT, the rest the UGPA.psychomohel wrote: I just looked it up, and apparently the median correlation of UGPA+LSAT and first year grades is .46, where 1 is a perfect correlation and 0 is no correlation at all.
Unemployed wrote:This.Panther7 wrote:that's r factor, to get direct correlation or whatever you need to square that number, which gives you like .21, supposedly .16 of that is directly related to LSAT, the rest the UGPA.psychomohel wrote: I just looked it up, and apparently the median correlation of UGPA+LSAT and first year grades is .46, where 1 is a perfect correlation and 0 is no correlation at all.
Simply put, if the correlation coefficient is .46, then 21% of the variance in first year grades can be explained by the regression model (UGPA+LSAT).
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Looks like your username isn't gonna be so cool when big Ben is in jail.bigben wrote:Unemployed wrote:This.Panther7 wrote:that's r factor, to get direct correlation or whatever you need to square that number, which gives you like .21, supposedly .16 of that is directly related to LSAT, the rest the UGPA.psychomohel wrote: I just looked it up, and apparently the median correlation of UGPA+LSAT and first year grades is .46, where 1 is a perfect correlation and 0 is no correlation at all.
Simply put, if the correlation coefficient is .46, then 21% of the variance in first year grades can be explained by the regression model (UGPA+LSAT).
The correlation is high enough to make the LSAT a remarkably good admissions tool. That you can find any single predictor with such a high correlation to something like law school grading is pretty amazing.
From the standpoint of trying to grant yourself some kind of competitive advantage, however, the correlation is dismally low. It makes almost no sense at all to factor it in.
As an illustration imagine just assuming that you will be an all-star in the NBA because you are tall. It's not that extreme of course but you get the idea.
--ImageRemoved--T14_Scholly wrote: Looks like your username isn't gonna be so cool when big Ben is in jail.
