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Re:Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout by tchalla on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @11:08AM (#27821912)
> I think asking for feelings of burnout exaggerates the issue of being burnt out by a huge factor.

Is there a better scientific method to quantify burnout?

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Re:Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout by dgb23 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @11:16AM (#27822007)
Not sure, but I'd ask questions around symptoms. A doctor also doesn't ask whether you have illness X, but rather if you have symptoms Y and Z and tests them.

Burnout has some pretty severe symptoms associated with it, several of them can be taboo in certain circles. It has strong overlap with depression for example. If 83% of developers have these symptoms, it would be shocking to me.

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