Re:Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
by myWindoonn on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:14PM
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I didn't produce this survey. I just know how to compute confidence intervals. I'm not going to regurgitate the Wikipedia article on confidence intervals at you; it's clear that you don't really want to learn how statistics work, and you'd rather feel smug because you surely know better than to consider a survey of your fellow people.
Re:Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
by throwawayswede on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @08:09PM
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Just read other replies. I'm not going regurgitate other comments to you. You're clearly way more annoyed by this than average. I don't feel like this is worth engaging with anymore.
I didn't claim to know everything there is to know about statistics and research in general, but I think I know enough to tell that this is not a study, but a marketing campaign for whatever this usehaystack thing is.
> First, they should have tried to poll around 400 people (and perhaps they did!),
If you had read the article, you would have known that that's not what they did.
> By typical polling standards (95% confidence interval, random sample from filtered population), we expect that 77-89% of UK software developers are actually burnt out. That is still three out of every four people in the industry!
Do I understand correctly that you've worked on this? That certainly explains the hostility, but nevertheless.
> we expect that 77-89% of UK software developers are actually burnt out.
That's not what the link/study says.
> That is still three out of every four people in the industry!
This is absolutely wrong, without a shred of a doubt.
I recommend that you read: How to lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff.