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The title tricks the reader into assuming "foreign" means "H-1B". Should it be resubmitted with a less misleading title?

• gyc 9y ago
  The headline is further misleading by saying "foreign citizens" when the study was talking about workers who were "foreign born." A U.S. citizen who was born abroad is not foreign.
  • ikeyany 9y ago
    Should be flagged then. Who writes this kind of trash?
  • tristanj 9y ago
    >A U.S. citizen who was born abroad is not foreign This is a relatively tiny demographic. About 50,000 US babies per year are born abroad. Compared to over 4 million native births per year. So about ~1.2%.
    • jogjayr 9y ago
      They may have meant naturalized US citizens.
      • gyc 9y ago
        Yep. People like Sergey Brin, Max Levchin, et al. would count as "foreign" under the metric of the study in the article.
• bdcravens 9y ago
  guideline: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." The best you could do is rewrite it as such: "Nearly three-quarters of Valley techies are foreign: many are H-1B"
  • ikeyany 9y ago
    foreign-born*, but yes, that would be acceptable.