[Dat Mon]

YOU SAID.... "Assuming you are interested in the right-hand tail, the number would be 0.0005 (one in 2000) of the eligible population."

CORRECT

You win a 1978 edition of Kernighan and Ritchie, hand autographed by Jason.

Now all we have to do is find out how many engineers there are in China and India who are fluent in English, want to come here, aren't already in grad school here, and multiply by 0.0005 to get the desired H1b total amount.

But all candidates still have to sit for the IQ test.

[indthkr]

"Now all we have to do is find out how many engineers there are in China and India who are fluent in English, want to come here.............."

Let's add another pole to that filter by including the requirement that they also desire to become fully participating U.S. citizens.