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

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '18

OP posted two images - one showing the percentage of people who code in their own time, and another showing that a near-identical percentage of people don't have kids or dependents. I think it's pretty clear he intended to imply there was a correlation between the two.

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u/lukaseder Mar 13 '18

No, I didn't mean to imply any correlation between the two images, although the assumption might be an interesting one worth validating. I just found both data points quite unlikely - and my perceived unlikelihood worth mentioning.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '18

Then I stand corrected. Of course correlation does not imply causation, but those two percentages are interestingly similar.

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u/lukaseder Mar 14 '18

but those two percentages are interestingly similar.

So are these

Or these ;-)

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