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Re:Paul Graham: News from the Front by prakash on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @12:36PM (#50536)
PG: Here's a good way to test this: Please ask the next round of applicants to NOT mention the school they went to.

What do you think?

Re:Paul Graham: News from the Front by pg on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @12:57PM (#50560)
We considered that, but there's more information there than just a scalar value representing impressiveness.
Re:Paul Graham: News from the Front by prakash on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @12:58PM (#50564)
Can you expand on that? What kind of information?
Re:Paul Graham: News from the Front by pg on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @01:10PM (#50575)
We can tell which founders went to the same school. We can ask people who teach at or went to school x about applicants from there. If they went to a school we know about first hand, we can ask more specific questions about what they did in college. If they went to a big hacker school like MIT, we can suggest that they recruit friends and/or launch their beta there.
Re:Paul Graham: News from the Front by vegashacker on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @02:17PM (#50612)
It also gives you the data you need to continue testing this theory.
Re:Paul Graham: News from the Front by asdflkj on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @10:20PM (#50878)
He could always ask them after accepting (or even rejecting).
Re:Paul Graham: News from the Front by prakash on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @01:13PM (#50578)
makes sense. thanks.
Re:Paul Graham: News from the Front by aston on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @12:55PM (#50557)
Too bad about those school email addresses...