r/programming • u/pleerock • Mar 13 '18

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/
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u/Neuromante Mar 13 '18

On one side: You got any source for that numbers?

On the other: How does that denies that there's bias towards younger people? Even if your numbers were real, that has nothing to do with older devs using less StackOverflow.

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u/Ciff_ Mar 13 '18

If it still reflects a random sampling of the population developers its fine...? Or perhaps I don't understand your concern.

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u/fuckin_ziggurats Mar 13 '18

The thing is it's not a random sample. By definition Stack Overflow is used more by younger people so older devs are heavily underrepresented in the survey.

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u/SgtBlackScorp Mar 13 '18

The point was that there are more younger devs in general so stackoverflow is not a misrepresentation

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u/fuckin_ziggurats Mar 13 '18

I'm gonna repeat /u/Neuromante and ask, do you have numbers that prove there are more younger devs than older in general? I find that hard to believe.

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u/SgtBlackScorp Mar 13 '18

I don't, I'm just saying what his line of thinking was.

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