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Comment author: gwern 23 February 2012 05:22:20PM 0 points [-]

The very difficulty in measuring productivity inevitably (humans trying to conserve their effort) leads to immense variability in productivity.

And also leads to difficulty of talented new people getting started; I read a very interesting experimental economics paper using oDesk on this yesterday: http://www.onlinelabor.blogspot.com/2012/02/economics-of-cold-start-problem-in.html