Re:Don't hire only self-described awesome developers
by ta12121 on Friday September 07, 2012 @05:31PM
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Research into the performance of medical doctors shows that their skill follows the normal distribution: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/12/06/041206fa_fact?cu...
We're not talking about the statistical central limit theorem here, we're talking about people who are passionate about programming and spend years working on their craft.
You can only invoke the normal distribution thing when you're talking about an outcome that is the average of many independent quantities.