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The programming talent myth

The programming talent myth

Posted May 2, 2015 11:48 UTC (Sat) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)
In reply to: The programming talent myth by interalia
Parent article: The programming talent myth

> I really doubt most people are actually incredibly good or incredibly bad.

I think it's not too rare to see bimodal curves. For example I think it's pretty much common to break people into "can't draw" and "can draw". There are few people who can't draw a stick figure and few Picassos, but if I had to guess the distribution of "how good can people draw?" I would say it's bimodal (made of two, somewhat overlapping, normal curves).


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