Don't hire only self-described awesome developers

Re:Don't hire only self-described awesome developers by estebank on Friday September 07, 2012 @05:22PM (#4491252)

The thing is, natural phenomena doesn't follow normal distribution, but the sum of non-normal variables, will approach a Gaussian distribution, as per the Central Limit Theorem[1][2].

The problem is people assuming a normal distribution on a single variable with unknown distribution.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem [2]: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/22387/why-it-is-oft...

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Re:Don't hire only self-described awesome developers by Xcelerate on Friday September 07, 2012 @05:42PM (#4491323)

Yes, that's correct. If anyone wants to know more, an elementary statistics book will teach you all about the central limit theorem and the law of large numbers. Very useful things to know.

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Re:Don't hire only self-described awesome developers by re_todd on Saturday September 08, 2012 @03:02AM (#4492486)

Khan Academy has a good lesson on the law of large numbers http://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/v/law-of-large-n...

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Re:Don't hire only self-described awesome developers by Xcelerate on Friday September 07, 2012 @07:18PM (#4491660)

mlvljr, for some reason your post is showing as "dead". I'm not sure why??

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