Subj : Re: Industry Calls for More Foreign Programmers
To   : comp.programming
From : Jim Slade
Date : Thu Aug 18 2005 12:44 am

spinoza1111@yahoo.com wrote in news:1124170671.897969.295870
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:

> 
> Flavius Vespasianus wrote:
>> spinoza1111@yahoo.com wrote in news:1124016883.271702.217090
>> @z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
>>
>> >
>> > No, just the facts. Graduate students are attracted as students and
>> > employees to top-flight people.
>> >
>>
>> That's an assertion, not proof.
> 
> A justified assertion. It's a nerd dodge to demand unreasonable "proof"
> in social science, and it's based on an elementary misunderstanding,
> that "studies" are a dialog with the people "studied" in sociology.
> 

I know plenty of people with graudate degrees in computer science who are 
completely inempt when it comes to working with computers. 

Ergo: Graduates students are not top-flight people.

NOT. But that's the same logical falacy you, and the industry lobbysts use.

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