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Expand Up @@ -126,10 +126,15 @@ tools like [`jq`](https://github.com/stedolan/jq) or manipulated as you wish:
The numbers given by `credit` are not perfect measures of developer productivity
nor maintainer responsiveness. Please use its results in good faith.

Without human eyes to judge a code contribution, its importance can be difficult
to measure. Some PRs are long, but do little. Some PRs are only a single commit,
but save the company. `credit` takes the stance that, over time, with a large
enough sample size, general trends of "who's doing the work" will emerge.
**Response Times:** Particularly in the Open Source world, volunteer developers
are under no obligation to respond in a time frame that is most convenient for
us the users.

**Merged PRs:** Without human eyes to judge a code contribution, its importance
can be difficult to measure. Some PRs are long, but do little. Some PRs are only
a single commit, but save the company. `credit` takes the stance that, over
time, with a large enough sample size, general trends of "who's doing the work"
will emerge.

### Median vs Mean

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