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So you think it's meaningful to talk about working programmers with negative productivity. But competent management would fire or re-task such workers. Perhaps

So you think it's meaningful to talk about working programmers with negative productivity. But competent management would fire or re-task such workers. Perhaps negative management skill is also meaningful, then.

jshen 15y ago
Why assume the mean is zero? People that are shorter than average don't have negative height :)
- jongraehl 15y ago
  A normal distribution implies that negative values are possible, no matter the mean. I definitely considered that the mean isn't 0.