[Rainymood]

>If you feel like a better than average programmer, there’s a 50% chance you’re correct.

This is not correct right? The word average should be replaced by the word median. Then this sentence is correct.

More on topic. I strive to be a 10x engineer by multiplying the output of my 1x teammates (including myself) by a factor 2... if I manage to make my team of 5 all twice as productive, boom 10x!

[EliRivers]

Possibly depends on your age. When I first encountered averages at school, I was taught there were three most commonly used (mean, median and mode) and their various failings, and we never used the term "average" on its own if we meant a specific kind of average. The median was as much an average as the mean.

At some point in the last couple of decades, it seems that "average" took on one specific meaning (no pun intended).