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by panny 1716 days ago
I'm pretty sure 10x programmer was 10x the worst programmer, not 10x the average programmer. The average was something like 4x.

http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~weimerw/481/readings/productivity...

>3.2 INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

>These studies revealed large individual differences between high and low performers, often by an order of magnitude.

They also detail how they measured it.