Their very next line also used "Most 10x engineers". Neither of those are talking about "most" in the profession, it's "most" in the subgroup. Average in the profession will be somewhere in between.

Are you really sure?

If 1x is the absolute rock-bottom lowest possible productivity, are them really the precious angels who care deeply about the user while making amazing code?

This is even more absurd.

> If 1x is the absolute rock-bottom lowest possible productivity

You understand the original meaning of the term. This is not how most people use it nowadays.

No, I don’t. You’re reading too much into my post. I haven’t made any judgement of whether 1x means average or rock bottom, because it doesn’t matter.

The assertion made by GP is absurd regardless of the definition, period.