From: Norm Matloff (matloff@cs.ucdavis.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 11:39:26 PDT
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 08:13:07AM -0700, Joachim Feise wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000 sramjee@hss.hns.com wrote:
> > > http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html
> > I remember reading this a couple years ago just after it was presented.
> > Unfortunately ever word of what he says is true.
> Well, it is not.
> Of course, the anecdotal things he quotes from newspapers may be true,
> but given the way newspaper editors work, these things are likely to be
> blown out of proportions and sensationalized.
> Age discrimination sure exists in some instances, but Norm Matloff makes
> it sound as if this is the rule, without giving sound (and provable) evidence.
> This is a bad approach, one that lobbying organizations take.
> Because of this, everything he says in that paper is suspect.
Hey, Joe, why don't you actually try READING my paper. There's
a lot more than just anecdotes, with lots of cited data, graphs,
tables etc.
Norm
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