> Bar passage rates at Whittier, long an avenue for disadvantaged students to become lawyers, had plunged in recent years. Its passage rate hovered in the routi

> Bar passage rates at Whittier, long an avenue for disadvantaged students to become lawyers, had plunged in recent years. Its passage rate hovered in the routine statewide range, about 68 percent a few years ago, but fell to 22 percent on the July 2016 bar. This is a great example of a statistic that is interesting but needs more context to be useful. Did the authors check to see whether other California law schools saw a similar decline? If so, why call out Whittier? If not, wouldn't that suggest that the problem is with Whittier and not with the bar program? What am I supposed to infer, being told only that at least one school saw a decline? Edit: I looked it up. There apparently aren't reported numbers for Whittier because fewer than 11 of their students sat for the bar exam for the first time in 2017. So the statistic is even less useful than I suspected.