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The question has nothing to do with whether anyone is actually a good programmer or not - the OP asked "do you consider yourself to be a good programmer?". It'
by wilsonnb2 8y ago
The question has nothing to do with whether anyone is actually a good programmer or not - the OP asked "do you consider yourself to be a good programmer?".
It's a question about how you view yourself, not about objectively comparing your programming skills to someone else's, therefore it doesn't require a common definition or measurement.
- throwawaymath 8y agoYes, exactly. And such a question would still have utility - despite being a subjective assessment - if the measures of the assessment were common. But that's not the case here. Not only are respondents subjectively assessing themselves, they're subjectively assessing themselves according to arbitrarily different measurement criteria which they need not disclose. Therefore, the only thing anyone can conclude from responses is, "For some definition of 'good programmer' which is specific to each individual respondent, approximately x% of respondents believe they satisfy the definition." It's one thing to solicit opinions; it's another thing entirely to open the floor for opinions which may not even be the same. The OP may have received personal assessments and anecdotes about steak, apples and cauliflower when their intention was to solicit personal assessments about almonds.