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After Grades, What Else Can We Alter to Make Ourselves 'Look More Attractive?'

By Bruce Carton

My mind is spinning now that I've learned that law schools are willing and able to retroactively inflate by 0.333 every grade recorded by their students over the last few years if it will make their students "look more attractive in a competitive job market." I just didn't know that this kind of thing was even on the menu of options! Now that we know that it's possible for an institution to instantly change what was previously considered to be an "etched-in-stone" number, the next question to me is what other areas of life this can be applied to? Please help me develop a list here. I'll throw out a few to get the ball rolling: 1. Pants sizes: Why should people have to wear blue jeans that say "Waist 38" on them? Blue jeans makers should deflate the size written on each pair (so size 38 now becomes 32) to make their customers "look more attractive in a competitive dating market." 2. Batting averages: The league-wide batting average in the American League is consistently 5 to 10 points higher than the average in the National League. The National League should inflate all of its players' averages by 8 points...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on June 22, 2010 (boomark / email).