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The title tricks the reader into assuming "foreign" means "H-1B".

Should it be resubmitted with a less misleading title?

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.

>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%.

They may have meant naturalized US citizens.

Yep. People like Sergey Brin, Max Levchin, et al. would count as "foreign" under the metric of the study in the article.

Should be flagged then. Who writes this kind of trash?

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"

foreign-born*, but yes, that would be acceptable.

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