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>We tend to consider anyone outside the top 20% to be entirely, unredeemably incompetent. The trouble is, in software, single individuals in that top 20% are c
by noonespecial 13y ago
>We tend to consider anyone outside the top 20% to be entirely, unredeemably incompetent.
The trouble is, in software, single individuals in that top 20% are capable of doing things in a short time that individuals from the bottom 80% couldn't do in 1000 man years. Software is funny like that, some people can think different kinds of thoughts.
So in a way, for certain values of incompetent, this is actually true.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoIn which case, merely adding more software developers won't help the problem. You need to add more people of the quality of the current top 20%, thus expanding that to "top 30%", "top 40%", and eventually the actual majority, hopefully.
- noonespecial 13y agoI'm not quite sure why I collected the downvotes, but you're spot on. For example, I'm short and relatively uncoordinated. I have a few chronic physical problems in addition to this that make me "unredeemably incompetent" at the sport of basketball. I could work my ass off for the rest of my life and still never come within shouting distance of Michael Jordan. I simply cannot perform at an NBA level no matter what I do. If there were a shortage of talented basketball players, it wouldn't matter how many copies of myself you were able to get into basketball training programs, you'd never get an MJ. We need a better system to find MJ's of STEM and allow their talent to work for us.