> From: s...@cs.brown.edu
> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:45:17 -0400
> Subject: Re: [racket] Math Guidance
> To: woo...@hotmail.com
> CC: users@racket-lang.org
>
> > Come now Shiram, there are lots of people who don't want to go to CS grad
> > school, didn't go to a name school and/or maybe don't have the stellar GPA
> > that the likes of Google tend to look for.
>
> Your mistake is in assuming that the "likes of Google" look for
> "stellar GPA"s. My experience suggests otherwise.
>
> > It doesn't make them poorly trained.
>
> You created a false equality and then knocked it down. I sure hope
> you don't reason about programs the same way. (-:
>
> > The point is that CS grads are doing worse than comparable
> > graduates of other disciplines.
>
> Based on data with lots of questionable assumptions. If it turns out
> the assumptions are wrong, maybe they're actually doing quite well.
> Are you perhaps suffering from selection bias?
>
> And this still doesn't justify your remarks about courses.
>
> Okay, troll confirmed. I really will stop now.
>
Mate. I realize that for a CS professor agreeing with this stuff is kind of
like a turkey voting for Christmas but seriously you should chill.
If you are going to throw out a presumption as loose as that these CS grads are
"poorly trained" then you should cut others some slack on the assumptions they
make.
Since this seems to be getting a bit personal I will address some other issues
you are raising off line.
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