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At a 100,000+ company it would be impossible to generalize
by questime 6y ago
At a 100,000+ company it would be impossible to generalize
- Gustomaximus 6y agoPeople can generalise about many millions in a country. I think with generalisations, some people forget its only generally true (or not).
- zcw100 6y agoOr never really true like with the case of of the average Air-force pilot. https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages.html https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
- archi42 6y agoOT: This was a great, thanks! For those interested in the HN comments, it was last posted 11 month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22956832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22956832 On topic: I think the comments already give a broad overview of what to expect, and not the idealized but non-existent average. Though a lot posted here seems to be quite generic; I know some issues first hand though I never worked at a company that could compare to Google on matters of size (similarities might be related to the composition of employees and the maturity of the product and processes).
- Gustomaximus 6y agoGreat article - thanks for sharing. I think this talks to "I think with generalisations, some people forget its only generally true" Here sizing was specific. E.g. Even simplified to a single measure, the Dutch are generally tall. Few are likely to be exactly the average height, and that number of exactly average people is going to reduce the more specific the measurement e.g 183cm vs 182.523431412cm So if you want to fault a generalisation, be more specific.... see second line.
- anddddd1 6y agoTheres almost always some truth to them.
- anddddd1 6y agoNot really - just more datapoints to confirm such generalizations.