Others may point out that median and average are different things.  (Or that 
the tails of a distribution may contribute more than measures of central 
tendency.)

But more fundamentally, programming is not a one-dimensional skill.  Raw coding 
speed is different from debugging or data engineering or algorithm design.  
Expertise at laying out DB schema is distinct from creating coherent new 
architectures.  Engineering complex systems is a different skillset from 
designing user-friendly user interfaces.  Etc and so forth.  And basic 
infrastructure like timekeeping has orthogonal dependencies on all these and 
vice versa.

Rob
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> On Jun 3, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Sanjeev Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>bsd.dk <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Which is like saying that if only 50% of all programmers weren't
> below the skill-median, we wouldn't have the problem.
> 
> What?!?!?
> 
> 50% of programmers are below average?  Why is no one doing something about it?
> 
> We should not rest till at least half are above average!

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