The US has less than 5% of the world's population. Which means if the qualities that make someone a great programmer are evenly distributed, 95% of great progra

The US has less than 5% of the world's population. Which means if the qualities that make someone a great programmer are evenly distributed, 95% of great programmers are born outside the US. That is the question isn't it -- are those qualities "evenly distributed" around the world? Africans make up a lot less than 5% of the great marathoners in the world. Does that mean the remaining 95% of great marathoners in the world live outside of Africa? There are usually a whole host of other intangibles associated with exceptional performance, which are sometimes directly undermined by a change in physical location.