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samatman on March 23, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: -2000 Lines of Code (2007)

> There is 0 correlation, none whatsoever

This is quite unlikely to be true. No correlation at all?

Especially if we shift to ΔSLOC rather than +SLOC, I don't believe that for a second.

You've made a good case that it's a bad proxy for productivity. It is. But there's no need to over-egg the pudding.

wesselbindt on March 24, 2024 [–]

I think it'd help to go over what the word correlation means, and then go over the examples again, and then look at the claim that there's a correlation between the value a dev provides and lines of code.

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