There was a law school in Southern California that has a bar passage rate of 7%, which means 93% of their graduates failed the test. They sued the California Bar on free speech grounds because they didn\u2019t want to be forced to state that 7% amount in their materials. According to the law school, the bar passage rate is a meaningless statistic. By the way, the school lost.<\/p>\n
Of course, the only people who claim a statistic is meaningless are those that don\u2019t do well in these statistics. Yes, I remember my issue with billable hours for law firm associates and how I claimed that they weren\u2019t a barometer of how good an associate was. I\u2019m sure if I had the clients that I could bill 200 hours a month, I would have been quite.<\/p>\n
In the retirement plan industry, providers who don\u2019t do well in specific instances will just dismiss their poor placement or lot as something meaningless. I remember hearing a financial advisor who lost a plan sponsor client to a well known financial advisor that ERISA 3(38) fiduciary services is just marketing. How many providers dismiss their client retention rate or claim that fees aren\u2019t so important because they just want to hide the ball and\/or the truth?<\/p>\n
If a provider glosses over a specific statistic or dismisses a notion rather quickly, don\u2019t take their word for it and find out why. Maybe the statistic really isn\u2019t that meaningless and it\u2019s relevant. Just don\u2019t take the provider\u2019s word for it.<\/p>\n
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