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Re:Microsoft ditches the stack ranking system. Yahoo lays of... by asdfologist on Saturday November 16, 2013 @06:22PM (#6746808)
Where does it say it's applied to teams of 10 people? When MSFT had stack ranking, it had a minimum team size (though I'm not sure what it was).
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Re:Microsoft ditches the stack ranking system. Yahoo lays of... by leurl7 on Saturday November 16, 2013 @06:58PM (#6746924)
So what? Statistics is not about fitting data points on a curve... And arguably HR is even less about that!
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