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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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