Fantastic Front Page WSJ Article on Employment Prospects Post-Law School

[bluedevilmike]

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“the base rate of any affective disorder (which includes depression) is 8.5% for males and 14.1% for females, . . . the percentage of male lawyers . . . scoring above the clinical cutoff on the measure of depression is nearly 21% and for female lawyers 16%.”

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<p>Interesting – only a 2 percentage point elevation for females (14%) but a 12.5 point elevation for males (147%). I wonder why?</p>