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What Do Loyola Law School and Old Navy Have in Common?

By Bruce Carton

Back in January, I was surprised to learn that law schools were willing and able to retroactively inflate (by 0.333 in the case of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles) every grade recorded by their students over the last few years if it would make their students "look more attractive in a competitive job market." After pondering that for a while I wrote here that now that we knew that it was possible for an institution to instantly change what was previously considered to be an "etched-in-stone" number, the next question was what other areas of life this could be applied to. I offered up a couple of suggestions, including the following: 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." Well, clearly the pants makers of this world read LBW, as an Esquire investigation shows that "vanity sizing" is rampant in the world of pants."Your pants have been deceiving you for years," Esquire writes. "And the lies are compounding." Check out this chart...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 10, 2010 (boomark / email).