I’m a lawyer, over 20 years out from law school. I took the LSAT cold, so I’m not a good candidate for your questions. I’ve always liked taking tests and always did well on standardized ones. I did well on the LSAT.
The reason I am responding is to add a bit of information. Lawyers talk, among ourselves and to law students, about what it means to “think like a lawyer.” It is a topic of fairly serious debate in jurisprudence for a number of reasons. One is that lawyers have a lot of power in American society. There are issues of justification and effects there. Another is the underlying sense that we really do think differently from most people. We see it in our everyday lives and it sparks our curiosity. There are many other reasons.
So, it makes me wonder what the MRI images would show when comparing lawyers’ brains to comparable non-lawyers brains.
I’m a lawyer, over 20 years out from law school. I took the LSAT cold, so I’m not a good candidate for your questions. I’ve always liked taking tests and always did well on standardized ones. I did well on the LSAT.
The reason I am responding is to add a bit of information. Lawyers talk, among ourselves and to law students, about what it means to “think like a lawyer.” It is a topic of fairly serious debate in jurisprudence for a number of reasons. One is that lawyers have a lot of power in American society. There are issues of justification and effects there. Another is the underlying sense that we really do think differently from most people. We see it in our everyday lives and it sparks our curiosity. There are many other reasons.
So, it makes me wonder what the MRI images would show when comparing lawyers’ brains to comparable non-lawyers brains.