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by shagie 576 days ago
> those numbers are probably based on source code contributions

The other part of that is a "more senior developers tend to do things outside of things seen with git commit." Meetings, commenting on code reviews, and documentation are the first three "not tracked in git" that come to mind.

Other things like proof of concepts may not find their way to the actual project repos (and thus has little visibility in the report).

That said, there are certainly developers who are at the 0.1x median even when they spend their full time working on solving that problem. They just work really slowly.