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ON GHOST ENGINEERS AND PROOF OR A LACK THEREOF

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A Stanford researcher's viral thread claimed that 9.5% of engineers at major tech companies are unproductive. Critics argue that the study's underlying research, focused on predicting code review evaluations, doesn't directly support the "ghost engineer" claim and that the methodology suffers from a lack of crucial statistical measures.