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Summary: "We took a classroom of students and measured their performance with coding challenges in a situation that bears no resemblance to actual business oper

• jvanderbot 7y ago
  Slight correction: "We took a classroom of students and measured their performance with coding challenges in a situation that bears no resemblance to actual business operations with no middle-management, insane CEO requests, or office politics. We observed that several high-impact comparisons could be made, similar to literature suggesting a 10x programmer. However, we found that comparing a student to himself often results in >10x results, and that other comparisons often used in literature could produce >10x from this dataset, which obviously had very few true outlier talents or performances. Therefore, we conclude that the story is varied and that individual variance overtime outweighs cross-individual variance at any specific time."
• itsdrewmiller 7y ago
  Their sample size was 494 students from classes over seven years (they could have included 3800 but wanted to limit it to a shared choice of language). And not for nothing, their students were not your typical newbie grad students - they had an average of 3.7 years of industry experience.