Show HN: The Programmer's Political Axis - where do you fall?

Re:Show HN: The Programmer's Political Axis - where do you f... by parfe on Monday August 13, 2012 @10:34AM (#4376049)

44.44% Conservative and 55.56% Liberal

Provides no feedback on what they do with your age, startupness, or favorite language. No anchors to know what liberal vs conservative means. Bolded portion of questions can be redefined in the body, e.g. #2, #6. Not a useful experience/waste of time.

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Re:Show HN: The Programmer's Political Axis - where do you f... by mkrecny on Monday August 13, 2012 @10:42AM (#4376092)

I'm not sure (yet) what I'll do with your age etc. Re: 'no anchors to know what liberal vs conservative means' the original Steve Yegge essay is linked to on the front page. https://plus.google.com/u/0/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSK...

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Re:Show HN: The Programmer's Political Axis - where do you f... by parfe on Monday August 13, 2012 @10:53AM (#4376151)

Yeah, that's worthless.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/charts/us2012.php That is anchoring.

If you aren't showing "Java coders fall here, Python coders fall here. Lispers here." Call your survey a work in progress, but it's pointless for anyone to currently fill out as it doesn't show meaningful feedback.

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Re:Show HN: The Programmer's Political Axis - where do you f... by mkrecny on Monday August 13, 2012 @10:58AM (#4376179)

Basically what you're saying is that any survey that's in the early stages of data collection is worthless.

I think that x% conservative y% liberal is 'meaningful feedback' to some people (https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/sweaxis.org)

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