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Both links say LSAT everywhere but I could not find any mention of what the acronym means! I had to check Wikipedia.
by aw3c2 13y ago
Both links say LSAT everywhere but I could not find any mention of what the acronym means! I had to check Wikipedia.
- graeme 13y agoOh yeah. Everyone in the target market knows what it is, otherwise it's pretty obscure. It's a logic test required for admission to law school in North America, highly competitive.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoMost Americans with college degrees have heard of it, even if we never go near law school. Same for the GMAT and MCAT.
- graeme 13y agoHow old are you? I'm 27. I find everyone in my target market (23 and under) knows about it, people my age don't always know about it, and people older than me often don't know about it.
- seanmcdirmid 13y ago38.
- anywherenotes 13y agoI'm 36, and when I saw LSAT I confused it with PSAT. So I thought I knew what it was, but was very much mistaking.
- DrPheltRight 13y agoI'm 23, didn't know.
- hkmurakami 13y agofor those of us who aren't familiar, GMAT is for business school and MCAT is for medical school.
- wozniacki 13y agoGive it a thought for a second. Does the degree of inconvenience caused to you - in requiring you to figure out what LSAT means - necessarily require that you record your disapproval here? The test for substance is a lot like it is for links. Does your comment teach us anything? There are two ways to do that: by pointing out some consideration that hadn't previously been mentioned, and by giving more information about the topic, perhaps from personal experience. Whereas comments like "LOL!" or worse still, "That's retarded!" teach us nothing. Source: http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
- andrewflnr 13y agoIt is potentially useful to tell someone that there is information missing in something they have written. If they're smart, they don't want to inconvenience their readers. In this case, it didn't matter much because the target market already knows, but you don't know until you bring it up.
- aw3c2 13y agoSorry, it was meant as constructive criticism. I guess I should have made that clear. Writing it out might help unsuspecting people like me figure out what it is all about. I could also imagine it to be beneficial for search engines. My comment taught you that I had no idea what LSAT meant and that I thought it should be explained. Now look at yours for a moment.
- gjm11 13y agoHere's the constructive-criticism version of your comment: "For the benefit of anyone like me who never heard of the LSAT before: it's the Law School Admission Test, a half-day test of reading comprehension, logic and verbal reasoning used by law schools in the US, Canada, and elsewhere." (More work? Maybe. But all the information there is also in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on the LSAT, which you said you already checked.)
- rahoulb 13y ago