Birthplaces of Software Developers in U.S.

Posted by spangry on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:10PM
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Re:Birthplaces of Software Developers in U.S. by winrid on Friday October 04, 2019 @03:25AM (#21155549)

Some states have zero India/China born developers - am I reading the second-to-last chart correctly?

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Re:Birthplaces of Software Developers in U.S. by statchk on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:16AM (#21155785)

It means that the survey had zero India/China born developers in its sample. The page links to https://usa.ipums.org/usa/sampdesc.shtml#us2017a which states that the AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY 2017 SAMPLE is a "1-in-100 national random sample of the population." Hence, the estimate of 877 software developers in Wyoming (WY) likely comes from a sample of 9 with 6 being U.S. born and 3 being born in a foreign country other than India or China. That's why the counts are usually limited to a minimum of 1,000 and are usually much higher.

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Re:Birthplaces of Software Developers in U.S. by TheCoelacanth on Saturday October 05, 2019 @01:45PM (#21166866)

The perils of reporting a single number instead of a confidence interval.

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Re:Birthplaces of Software Developers in U.S. by psilocipher on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:15AM (#21155778)

Amazing that there are so many 2-year-old software developers, or did their parents pre-ordain their future careers? ;)

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Re:Birthplaces of Software Developers in U.S. by viklove on Friday October 04, 2019 @02:26PM (#21160445)

I don't see a column for age, what are you talking about?

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Re:Birthplaces of Software Developers in U.S. by crb002 on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:08AM (#21155744)

IBM in Jersey?

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