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Discussion on: What 10x engineer means?

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scottshipp

10x engineer idea was based on bad science. It was purely subjective impression. The people surveyed claimed that some of their devs seemed to have 10x more output. There was no scientific definition of what that meant. It's rubbish we should forget about.

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stereobooster

Yeah I found that paper later after I published the article

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Karl N. Redman

Please edit your article to reference the the basis for this discussion. That would be very helpful for people reading it. Otherwise, nice commentary article.