> I really do not understand how anyone... Someone contributing to an official Stack Overflow blog seems like a likely candidate! Sure, the conclusions are th

> I really do not understand how anyone... Someone contributing to an official Stack Overflow blog seems like a likely candidate! Sure, the conclusions are the result of a fishing expedition into the usage data for something to comment on, rather than something scientific that began with a question or tests a hypothesis. However, while the total number of questions isn't so meaningful, that is the denominator used to normalize the data across languages. Think of it as `n`, where the confidence interval for Java is probably smaller than the one for Sharepoint. I think it is best to think of this as exploratory analysis rather than a study exploring a specific question. It would be interesting to see further analysis into what puts Paris and London on one end and Moscow and Tokyo on another. Let's say that Stack Overflow makes programmers more productive, but some cultures might have a tendency to think that it is "cheating" to use the site while at work. Addressing that would be an easy way to increase market penetration. Maybe they should get some submarine articles published in Japanese and Filipino trade publications.