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> Actually, that result would be precisely what you would expect from a process that fails to disprove the null hypothesis, and is therefore meaningless. You'd see them hiring essentially a random sample of engineers with the same distribution as the whole population.

This implies that the capability distribution at Google is approximately equal to the capability distribution of the entire set of eligible developers. I don't personally think that's true, and in any case even if it is true it's not obvious.




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