Do you have any reason to assume that programming competence is a "natural phenomenon" ?
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.
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Do you have any reason to assume that programming competence is a "natural phenomenon" ?
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.
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...