Mod parent up!
First the OP used the ad hominem circumstantial. Then he criticized the use of standard metrics without a hint of why they're inappropriate or what alternatives he would suggest. Apparently it got rated "insightful" because he used the learned term "BS".
H-1B proponents hate Matloff precisely because it's so hard to rebut his arguments. While he's currently a CS prof, he used to be a statistics prof, and it shows. He uses hard data properly analyzed. Meanwhile the pro-H-1B forces cite the offhand statements of unbiased parties like wealthy tech CEO's or the "everybody knows there's a STEM shortage" statement of "conventional wisdom" (the same approach used in the Flat Earth theory). No hard data at all. And they call BS on Matloff?
Then there's the suggestion that he's a xenophobe. I guess it's true because he fits the profile: speaks fluent Mandarin, was co-chair of the Wen Ho Lee defense committee, is married to a woman from Hong Kong, and they're raising their children to be bilingual.
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Mod parent up! First the OP used the ad hominem circumstantial. Then he criticized the use of standard metrics without a hint of why they're inappropriate or what alternatives he would suggest. Apparently it got rated "insightful" because he used the learned term "BS". H-1B proponents hate Matloff precisely because it's so hard to rebut his arguments. While he's currently a CS prof, he used to be a statistics prof, and it shows. He uses hard data properly analyzed. Meanwhile the pro-H-1B forces cite the offhand statements of unbiased parties like wealthy tech CEO's or the "everybody knows there's a STEM shortage" statement of "conventional wisdom" (the same approach used in the Flat Earth theory). No hard data at all. And they call BS on Matloff? Then there's the suggestion that he's a xenophobe. I guess it's true because he fits the profile: speaks fluent Mandarin, was co-chair of the Wen Ho Lee defense committee, is married to a woman from Hong Kong, and they're raising their children to be bilingual.