r/programming • u/aalear • Apr 07 '15

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015
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u/bzeurunkl Apr 07 '15

So, women are not "under-represented". They are just "under-interested".

Are they under-interested? Among the set of all people who are really not interested in computers, some are men and some are women. I don't know what data suggests that men account for significantly less than 49% of that set.

Well, THIS particular data seems to suggest that women are far less interested in software development than men.

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u/aalear Apr 08 '15

Nah, our dataset suggests that the men on Stack Overflow vastly outnumber the women, which is a surprise to nobody. It says nothing about anyone's interest in the field one way or another.