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People from developing countries have more incentive to participate in these competitions as the effort/reward ratio is greater. This is what significantly skew
by shalmanese 17y ago
People from developing countries have more incentive to participate in these competitions as the effort/reward ratio is greater. This is what significantly skews the numbers.
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- nico 17y agoWeird, a comment replying to the above disappeared. Anyway, just wanted to share this: - http://www.gapminder.org/videos/gapcasts/gapcast-6-chile-a-developing-country/ http://www.gapminder.org/videos/gapcasts/gapcast-6-chile-a-d... Pretty OT, but important to notice that "developing country" is not an easy definition.
- Locke1689 17y agoYes. I compete in the ACM ICPC and TopCoder competitions and here's the deal. Top Chinese competitors in these areas get jobs doing these competitions. They literally get paid by the Chinese government to practice algorithm writing and competitive programming all day every day. US competitors are just college students like me who have things like school to deal with. Given this situation, it is unsurprising that Russian and Chinese coders win almost every year.