Beginners and experts (Batchelder blog post)

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:34 PM, D'Arcy Cain <darcy at vybenetworks.com> wrote:
> On 09/29/2017 03:15 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> "Carefully-designed experiments" -- yeah, that is so totally how the
>> coders I've
>> worked with operate *wink*
>>
>> I think that's an awfully optimistic description of how the average
>> programmer
>> works :-)
>
>
> Better not hire average programmers then.  I do "Carefully-designed
> experiments" to find non-obvious bugs so I guess I am not average.  I get
> the impression that many people here are above average too.
>
> Personally I think you are being pessimistic about "average" programmers.
> Perhaps you just know the sloppy kind.

Based on any mathematical definition of "average", yes, I am pretty
pessimistic about the average programmer :)

ChrisA