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In the linked video, Peter Norvig attaches a big caveat which is that this analysis was done on people who were hired and therefore met Google's various other hiring criteria. So the context isn't random people off the street, but rather that among people who are already (presumably) competent at what they do, winning coding competitions correlates inversely with job performance for some reason.

>>elihu+(OP)
So I would even not just say "the context isn't random people off the street", but that "the context isn't random employed/employable programmers". It's people working at Google. Deducing anything from that with high certainty is hard. Not only it could be inversed in other companies, but even if not it is hard to apply statistics to individual candidates.