I wouldn't be at all surprised if the data are skewed. A programmer in the bottom 25 percentile probably has a negative effect on your business. There's no wa

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the data are skewed. A programmer in the bottom 25 percentile probably has a negative effect on your business. There's no way programmer pay should be a normal distribution because bad programmers have such horrible effects. But that's besides the point. I provided a cited document with reasonable numbers for discussion. The original article provides no data and does nothing to back up the claims made. The stronger obligation here is on the author. I don't have to disprove what he said, he has to prove himself right. What you should be calling BS on is the article. I still can't believe this thing isn't dead yet.