Re: Debian

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

David Wright wrote: 
> On Tue 19 Oct 2021 at 06:41:14 (-0700), Peter Ehlert wrote:
> > On 10/19/21 6:08 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > It's getting towards off-topic, but I can confirm that just
> > > because a person is working on a CS master's degree, that
> > > doesn't mean they have any degree of competence.
> > > 
> > > There is a major university here in the Boston area where the CS
> > > undergrads are consistently better than the graduate students.
> > > My company gets many of both interviewing for temporary positions.
> > > The undergrads tend to be clever, curious, and ready to learn;
> > > the grad students are frequently (not always) prone to making up
> > > fantasy answers rather than admitting that they don't know
> > > something.
> 
> That can be caused by selection bias: you're offering something
> attractive to the brighter students at undergraduate level; by the
> time those brighter students have graduated, they may already be
> networking with a wider geographical range of institutions offering
> something more permanent.

I actually fear that the selection bias is in a different place:
the undergrads are the product of a competitive academic
process; the grad students appear to have been selected for
ability to pay.

-dsr-