The Emperor Wears No Clothes: Should LSAT Accommodations Exist for Learning Disabilities? (Ep. 40)

Ben opens this episode by examining the rapid rise of LSAT accommodations and asking whether the emperor wears no clothes when people claim that extra time creates fairness. He uses recent research to show how time based accommodations change the nature of the LSAT and reduce its ability to predict first year law school performance.

He walks through findings that extended time LSAT scores tend to overpredict law school GPA and explains why this happens when timing pressure is removed from a skills based exam. Ben then connects these results to broader cultural trends in higher education...