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mr90210 ◴[] No.45087189[source]
> 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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1. spmurrayzzz ◴[] No.45088403[source]
I generally agree with this just from a perspective of personal sentiment, it does feel wrong.

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.