> You'll find a big distribution in talent, but a median producer is not 1/10 the best. That's also a misunderstanding: The original research that the "10x" l

> You'll find a big distribution in talent, but a median producer is not 1/10 the best. That's also a misunderstanding: The original research that the "10x" label was based on was best-to-worst, not best-to-median. Also (not so much to you but eh may as well just dump it here): it was "in a given group of experienced programmers". Basically could be thought of as "within a given team". It never meant a single person was themselves always 10x or whatever.