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welp, lets wait for the body count, and then move on until the next one.
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13 minutes ago, bolverk said:
He argues he’s not trying to score points, and yet he and the other Reichwinger ONLY came in here so they could throw around the “tranny" slur. I don’t think either of them had ever posted in this thread before today.
maybe he's in vancouver every day of the year except when a Trans person commits a crime
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1 hour ago, Frank Drebin said:
US News law school rankings are effectively based on the average LSAT of entering 1Ls. They have other criteria. But LSAT scores drive it all. So what happened is the A&M name got them an influx of new applicants. And they were able to be more selective. The easiest way to manipulate the rankings, and I assume they do this, is to take smaller incoming 1L classes of 1Ls with high LSAT scores and a shitload of transfers (which do not count into LSAT metric). Some schools are notorious for doing this -- NYU is one.
Not entirely. They actually have a number of different metrics. I've long suspected that aggy games the system because any practicing lawyer with an aggy undergrad degree is going to artificially inflate aggy's law school ranking. But I do agree that the name led to an influx of better applicatns.
An explanation of the pie graph above.
QuoteWhile U.S. News does tell us each of the metrics it factors into the rankings and the precise weights they are given, it does not publish precisely how all of these metrics are calculated. It is impossible to know their exact methods for certain metrics, and thus impossible to replicate with perfect accuracy. For example, it appears that some data is rounded, but U.S. News does not disclose how it rounds that data. Another issue preventing perfect accuracy is job category weights. U.S. News does not disclose how much weight most job types are assigned (e.g., how much is a full-time, short-term, professional position worth versus a full-time, long-term, JD-advantage position?). This is particularly problematic for schools that tend to have more of the non-full credit job outcomes. Further, U.S. News does not disclose the source of test-score percentiles it uses. All these combine to make a perfect replication quite difficult.
However, the basic methodology U.S. News uses is not, ultimately, that complicated. Certain things are convoluted—the way that they transform certain data, the different weights assigned to job categories, etc.—but U.S. News does not take active measures to prevent people from replicating their methods (at least, not beyond declining to disclose certain parts of those methods), and even for those things they don’t disclose, they generally provide enough “hints” to allow reasonably accurate replication.
The Unintuitive Weighting System
One of the easiest mistakes to make in understanding the U.S. News law school rankings has to do with the pie chart above. The weighting of the various metrics, as presented by U.S. News, is deceptive due to the way they standardize and scale the data. Taken literally, one might assume that a raw score would reflect that each piece of data—Median LSAT, Library Resources, Peer Assessment, etc.—contributes its respective percentage to a given school’s raw score, similar to how one might calculate an overall grade for a course from several assignments with different weights. That is not the case, and it is a common and key misunderstanding.
How, then, is the score calculated? Within each metric, U.S. News scales and standardizes scores (Z-scores), and then weighs the resulting score by that factor’s respective assigned weight. Unlike in our example of finding a grade for a course from a number of assignments, in the U.S. News formula, it is quite possible to achieve “grades” above 100% or below 0% for each given factor. In fact, this is quite common. This distorts the expected “weight” of each factor, in many cases quite drastically. The Librarian to Student Ratio is an example of this—despite the fact that it only makes up 2% of the U.S. News formula, Yale Law School overperforms so much in this metric relative to other schools that, in the most recent rankings edition, it was responsible for its number one position.
Still doesn't explain how they've leapfrogged a bunch of very strong, well-established, regional schools with good reputations. A non-exhaustive list:
USC
Wake Forest
Boston College
Emory
W&L
Fordham
Wisconsin
Georgia
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193 House Republicans voted against the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which provides over $2.35 billion to expand vital school mental health services and improve learning environments. This is the most significant gun violence prevention law passed in 30 years.
202 House Republicans voted against the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, which helps keep guns out hands of people who are a danger to themselves or others. Senate Republicans have blocked background checks from even getting a vote.
201 House Republicans voted against a red flag bill that would create a federal procedure for law enforcement to intervene and prohibit people who are a danger to themselves or others from possessing a firearm.
210 House Republicans voted against the American Rescue Plan, which provided $12 billion to address mental health needs arising from the pandemic.
196 House Republicans voted against going after gun traffickers, which flood our communities with firearms used by criminals.
193 House Republicans voted against cracking down on the spread of ghost guns which are used by criminals and minors because they can be bought without a background check before President Biden took action to close that loophole through executive action.
Now imagine getting upset at those who mock the "thoughts and prayers" solution offered by the GOP. As opposed to those who are actively and intentionally allowing persons like this Minnesota shooter to acquire assault weapons.
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32 minutes ago, Goredho said:
I am only surprised that in 2025 America, they didn't appropriate the Cleveland Indians Chief Wahoo logo.
Actually, now that you mention it, strange that that logo has not also become a rallying cry
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11 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:
Where was this outrage and vitrol when a Minnesota lawmaker was assassinated by a MAGA loving piece of shit?
Where was @Zeus's outrage over ANY of the massacres committed by the right?
Nowhere.
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Just now, mdmost said:
Anything we can do to avoid talking about banning guns. You have to protect the guns. We get it.
How else are we going to continue to have Zeus's ideological brethren massacre gays and Latinos?
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Just now, Brisketexan said:
Fuck that. People like him 1) enabled this regime, and 2) openly or tacitly support the murder of my family and people like me. The entire regime calls my family vermin, the regime wants to get rid of all 65 million of us (their exact words, and exact numbers). They need to be called out and held to account, because they are evil pieces of shit. And evil pieces of shit should be derided and hounded to the ends of the earth. For eternity.
Giving evil a pass is how we got here.
He also likes pedophiles, so you have to assume he's into diddling kids.
Also, inb4 Ani shows up to scold us for being mean to Earl.
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1 hour ago, Captainant said:
Is this a bit?
it has to be. no one is that stupid
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All 5 from OOS.
Just scares you to death
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9 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:
Do you want a fatwa, because that's how you get a fatwa.
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7 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:
Did she commit mortgage fraud or not? Claiming ignorance would be a thing. Lol
Did Trump fuck children or not? Claiming ignorance would be a thing. Lol
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4 minutes ago, Goredho said:
I mean, its attempted murder, and pre-meditated at that. I don't think there is any other conclusion that we can draw from the videos we've seen.
Attempted murder is a tough one, especially in this context where a guy is just beating on someone with his fists. Absent clear evidence of intent - e.g. a recording where the defendant explicitly states that he is going to kill the victim - unless a defendant is using a gun, or stabs a guy in the heart or neck, its hard to get an attempted murder conviction even from the most violent assaults.
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29 minutes ago, Covri said:
Jokes on them, we don't give a shit about school shootings anymore.
Agreed. Not even sure why they make the news anymore unless its like 10+ dead.
Its the price we have to pay to protect our right to own guns. So why make a fucking bother?
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hey check out our old friend matt
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Big loser cries about his action figures increasing in price due to tariffs:
Oops! I voted for this, but please don't blame me as I didn't personally impose tariffs
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you look over there at ohio state and its just all about the shoe and the couches and the jorts and you just think we've got to play a good game
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2025 game Week 1, #1 Texas @ #3 Ohio State - What the Fuck is a Buckeye?
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Don't you mean this guy?