Re: Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard

From: Andrew Swallow (am.swallow_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:14:47 +0000 (UTC)

jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:

> In article <cvt52d$m88$1@sparta.btinternet.com>,
> Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
>>Brian Inglis wrote:
>>[snip]
>>
>>>Bell curve or skewed would be expected, unless the skew was really
>>>unusual: unexpected would be bimodal distribution; I've often thought
>>>that perhaps developers fell into two groups: those who feel
>>>challenged, are interested, motivated, can do well whatever is thrown
>>>at them, and those for whom it is just a job to get code working to
>>>make money.
>>>
>>
>>Human activities normally follow the Pareto distribution.
>>
>>5% of the people produce 50% of the outcome.
>>20% of the people produce 80% of the outcome.
>>The remaining 80% produce the remaining 20% of the outcome.
>
>
> You have forgotten the n% who work to prevent the completion
> of the outcome.

Possible one of the reasons why the 80% produce so little.

In the case of crime the n% are called policemen. ;)

Andrew Swallow