This bears repeating. People think increased difficulty identifying the good developers (lower signal:noise ratio) means there are fewer good developers. It's a

This bears repeating. People think increased difficulty identifying the good developers (lower signal:noise ratio) means there are fewer good developers. It's a heuristic bias, as far as I can tell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic