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Your original assertion was that person X might think a code sample is good, but person Y will not think it is good. Those are two different assertions - you need to test them independently if you want to draw conclusions.

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if "lesser" programmers cannot recognize good code - that's just Dunning-Kruger. That was why I suggested looking for crappy code instead - more people can recognize crappy code, because more people are beyond that skill level. If you ask for samples of good code and your replies all differ in their assessments, you don't know whether that's because "good" code is intrinsically hard to recognize, or because all your respondents were crappy programmers.



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