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Limpopo sent around this meta-analysis from the Walkaway Journal of Organizational Studies that compared the productivity of programmers. It broke out the work programmers did as individuals and inside groups. It found that even though there were programmers who could produce code that was a hundred times better than the median – one percent as many bugs, one hundred times more memory efficiency – that this kind of insane virtuosity was only weakly correlated with achievement in groups.”
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I am not sure if this quote is saying that one exceptional individual cannot be equaled by any group of regular people; or that individuals inside groups don't perform any better than outside? Or both…
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