> survey of 791 developers
We have got to stop. In a universe of well over 25 million programmers a sample of 791 is not significant enough to justify such headlines.
We’ve got to do better than this, whatever this is.
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But statistically speaking, at a 95% confidence level you'd be within a +/- 3.5% margin of error given the 791 sample size, irrespective of whether the population is 30k or 30M.