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I’m a little skeptical of the effective lawyer study because of how I’ve seen this play out in similar studies in education. Asking about someone’s “effectiveness” is just substituting another metric for the actual outcome we want to measure, I.e. their actual effectiveness.

Studies that rate teacher “effectiveness” based on surveys typically show little correlation with student test score changes. I wonder what the correlation is between lawyer’s rating and their actual win rate?

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