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Re:Was Steve Yegge Right? by delinka on Monday August 01, 2011 @06:35PM (#2834830)
"Prediction #10: In five years’ time, most programmers will still be average."

Just remember, half the population is below average intelligence.

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Re:Was Steve Yegge Right? by joeburke on Monday August 01, 2011 @06:44PM (#2834856)
You only have a 50% chance of this being correct.

Replace "average" with "median" and you're at 100%.

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Re:Was Steve Yegge Right? by gcp on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @04:57AM (#2836427)
Isn't it normally distributed? In which case using average is fine.
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