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You'd probably be better off asking a more general question. Non-programmers are not likely to click a link, "Are you a programmer," while programmers are prob
by rio517 16y ago
You'd probably be better off asking a more general question. Non-programmers are not likely to click a link, "Are you a programmer," while programmers are probably 10x more likely to click such a link.
- derefr 16y agoIt might be tacky, but it would work well-enough to just rephrase it as "How many non-programmers read HN?" and have a single voting option. We can assume that HN's uniqs/month, minus that number, are the number of programmers.
- jackowayed 16y agoNo, it would drastically underrepresent non-programmers. That only works if every single person that visits HN this month will see this poll and will take the trouble of voting (possibly having to create an account to do it) if they are a non-programmer. It also requires the uniques/month number to be accurate. I'd guess that you would get an answer 2 orders of magnitude too small doing it that way, and that might be a generous estimate.
- throw_away 16y agosomeone should make the "are you a non-programmer" poll.