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> Remember "average" means you're already better than half the people not really
by sorry_outta_gas 5y ago
> Remember "average" means you're already better than half the people
not really
- marifjeren 5y agoI disagree. Job performance is believed to follow either a symmetric normal distribution or an L shaped distribution. In either case, the mean is either very close to or greater than the median. See e.g. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2011.01239.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-6570....
- jshorty 5y ago> We conducted 5 studies involving 198 samples including 633,263 researchers, entertainers, politicians, and amateur and professional athletes. It seems tough to take anything meaningful from that study, based on the job types it examined, and the tiny percentage of the workforce those jobs represent. Working in tech our job responsibilities are often quite fuzzy and performance is difficult to quantify. PDF of article: http://www.hermanaguinis.com/PPsych2012.pdf http://www.hermanaguinis.com/PPsych2012.pdf