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The lsat percentiles have been super stable for decades and a 170 was almost always right around the 98th percentile and then in less than 10 years a 170 became a 96th percentile score. (Let alone the more massive adjustments down the scale).
What in the world happened? Could the few thousand people with accommodations (I know lsac says they average 5) really account for this? Are there tons of smart international students able to take the test online now from out of the country?
Just wondering here...
On average those with accommodations score 5 points higher. Accommodations are much easier to get following the various lawsuits against LSAC for disability unfairness. It is a fact that more accommodations are being requested, and it is reasonable to combine these two facts to infer that more people are potentially scoring higher with accommodations. That’s the only reason I say plausible, not that it explains the entire percentile shift upwards.
The authors presumes without justification that there could not be multiple factors interrelated that explain the example phenomenon.
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Bro your literally committing a common lsat flaw. You are equating raw number increases to a proportional change of percentile score. Those shouldn’t change much from increased test takers unless the original percentiles were not representative, or the bump in percentiles is due accommodations requests could be plausible.