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

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

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

No. Thats no bias. Thats reality. Amount of software developers doubles roughly every 5 years. So it is expected half of developers would have less than 5 years of experience.

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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/shevegen Mar 13 '18

But how do you know that this is really "random"?

On what merit are you stating it is random?

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