Re:Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
by danenania on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @02:59PM
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I think they go hand-in-hand. People naively apply intro-level statistics to messy real-world problems and then think they need an orders of magnitude smaller sample than they would need to even hint at the possibility of an interesting effect.
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Re:Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
by majormajor on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:43PM
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Neither a bad experiment nor an unrepresentative sample will be helped by a larger sample size, though.
Re:Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
by danenania on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @04:01PM
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True, though no sample is ever truly representative along every dimension. Even when a lot of effort is put into making a sample as representative as possible, there will be variance in all the potential ways the sample can diverge from the population; this variance seems to be consistently underestimated.