Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity

Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by scott_s on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @04:14PM (#1012868)

I meant "the developers you can see" to imply the people around you. That's a small sample size, and not representative of the entire world.

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Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by joe_the_user on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @04:52PM (#1012958)

A small sample size would just imply greater deviation. There's no reason to assume the programmers outside your sample would be x10 better than those in your sample.

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Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by scott_s on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @05:09PM (#1012989)

That only works when you can assume your sample is representative of the global population. Since people are not evenly distributed according to their abilities, that assumption will not hold.

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Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by TeHCrAzY on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @08:11PM (#1013174)

But in a generalisation, you have to generalise.

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