But you're using that example as a straw man to attack the article's concept. >Why should a referral from some random acquaintance count so highly, anyway? I'd

But you're using that example as a straw man to attack the article's concept. >Why should a referral from some random acquaintance count so highly, anyway? I'd much sooner trust an interview loop than "Oh, I went to school with them a decade ago; beyond that I couldn't tell you much of anything about them." That's an intentionally weak example. You shouldn't trust that referral, and no one would argue that you should.