Why can't both be true? If you actually had some objective measure of programmer...

joeld42 on April 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: There are no 10x developers, but there are 1/10 on...

Why can't both be true? If you actually had some objective measure of programmer skill, wouldn't you expect there to be some kind of bell curve of skilled programmers, with 10x and 0.1x people somewhere at the tails?