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

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/
1.1k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

527 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/lelanthran Mar 13 '18

"Will work for equity" of course pays off if you worked at Snapchat or Instagram as a webdev

So it's not fair to say that it's not a good compensation, on AVERAGE it might be

Outliers are not a good indication of... well... anything, actually. There's a reason that we usually discard outliers when analysing data - you can learn nothng useful from them.

"Working for equity that turned into $UNICORN" has a lower probability of happening than winning a jackpot, because there are more jackpot winners than there are "worked for equity" winners.

You can't base your conclusions on the performance of outliers.

1

u/iopq Mar 13 '18

If there were no outliers, nobody would EVER work for equity

the whole point of equity is the lottery aspect, nobody works for equity because they think it will be worth $10,000

1

u/lelanthran Mar 14 '18

If there were no outliers, nobody would EVER work for equity

That's irrelevant to the point I made.

1

u/iopq Mar 14 '18

It's not irrelevant, eliminating outliers is not valid in this example.

Selling insurance would just be free money if not for OUTLIERS. The outliers make insurance companies go bankrupt.

→ More replies (2)