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Here's another, even worse example: > It turns out that people’s interview language of choice matched their most endorsed language on LinkedIn just under 50% o
by fnl 10y ago
Here's another, even worse example:
> It turns out that people’s interview language of choice matched their most endorsed language on LinkedIn just under 50% of the time, so, you know, just slightly worse than flipping a coin.
A coin has 2 sides. How many programming languages are there, again?
- huac 10y agoAnd what's the distribution over the languages, in terms of 'preferred interview programming language'?
- leeny 10y agoPeople overwhelmingly chose one language to interview in, so there wasn't much fo a distribution. Unless you mean which languages are most popular?
- xapata 10y ago> which languages are most popular? Is there any other (reasonable) way to interpret that question?
- leeny 10y agoWasn't sure if you were asking that independently of endorsements. Right now, the most heavily used languages on interviewing.io are Java, Python, JavaScript, and C++ (in that order). Ruby, C#, and Go are in the middle. At the bottom are Perl and PHP.
- stingraycharles 10y agoYeah reading that made me realise the whole article is just spam.
- usgroup 10y agolanguage of choice == linkedin endorsed lang -> {TRUE,FALSE} Yet if there was no relationship between the two entities and there were N languages, one would expect the random probability of TRUE to be N/N^2 = 1/N. Although, the writer doesn't seem to allege that he's comparing to random or anything like that.
- leeny 10y agoYeah, that's exactly how I meant it. But I agree it's confusing. Will remove the comparison right now.
- mulmen 10y agoI read that as flipping a coin to predict if the most-endorsed language will be the language of choice in an interview. I make no claim to the statistical usefulness of such a statement.
- PeterisP 10y agoAnd the variables are measuring different things - you'd expect the most endorsed language to mirror the language that you have the most experience in during your (possibly very long) career, and there's no reason to suppose that it should match your current language of choice (which quite likely is more modern than what you used 10 years ago) more than 50% of the time; no matter how (un)reliable endorsements are, this isn't a valid argument against them.