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According to this final model, there are still no effects by
ethnicity once other significant factors are accounted for (ethnicity
is not significant overall, nor has the relationship of ethnicity to bar
passage changed over the two data sets). As when looking at only
the older data set, law school GPA, LSAT score, and undergraduate
GPA are all significant predictors of passing the bar. Note that here,
data set is significant, indicating that there have been changesin
the bar passage rate across the two data sets (x2(1) = 5.87, p =
0.0190), even after accounting for other factors. Additionally, there
are interactions of data set with law school GPA (x2(1) = 7.17, p =
0.0074) and undergraduate GPA (x2(1) = 15.58, p < 0.0001),
indicating that the relationship of these two measures to the
probability of bar passage is different from the older data set to the
2013 data set.
Table 16 provides odds ratios for each of these effects, which
help to better understand the reason for these results. According to
Table 16, the odds of passing the bar between 2005 and 2011
increased 13.67 times for each.additional law school GPA point.
This was reduced to just 1.93 times for each additional GPA point
in 2013. In other words, the law school GPA's relationship to bar
passage diminished in 2013. This may be related to the effect of the
mandatory mean that was adopted between these periods, which
led to grade compression. On the other hand, the effect of
undergraduate GPA was the opposite. Between 2005 and 2011, the
odds of passing the bar increased by 1.69 times for each additional
undergraduate GPA point. In 2013, the odds of passing the bar
increased 150 times for each additional undergraduate GPA point.240
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