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If the labor market works, it seems like people should settle into positions where they are about average--and the standard deviation should stay small. If you
by mynameishere 19y ago
If the labor market works, it seems like people should settle into positions where they are about average--and the standard deviation should stay small. If you take a random group of coders and give them brain teaser-style problems, of course large differences between performance will occur. If you gave people tasks completely outside their abilities, of course they will score a "zero". That says nothing about how they do their actual jobs.
- stcredzero 19y agoBack in 1997, I met a programming idiot. He was one of those C programmers who regarded programming as a kind of "magic." He didn't understand anything about virtual machine semantics and separation of processes. Well, he moved to Atlanta for an $80k job, which he got through connections from his church, which was also a significant increase from his IT job at a public TV station. No, the labor market is not perfect!