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18000 respondents are men vs only 900 women The State of What Men Think about Javascript but seriously how was this survey distributed and is there any explan

• wild_preference 8y ago
  Maybe that's actual representation of the genders in the web development field. If so, then it's still "What JS users think of JS."
  • madmax14141 8y ago
    https://www.ncwit.org/blog/did-you-know-demographics-technical-women https://www.ncwit.org/blog/did-you-know-demographics-technic... According to this woman make up around 30% of web developers in the US. The highest amount of respondents are from the US so I would expect the woman respondents to be more than a measly 5%.
    • eropple 8y ago
      Eh. You raise a good and reasonable point but in this particular case I think you're comparing pomes to apples. "Web developer" is a pretty broad term, and was even moreso in 2012 when your statistic was generated. As an example: I'm a "web developer". But if I was surveyed about CSS (as a particular technology I barely understand, avoid using, and don't care about) I wouldn't respond. I would expect a number of my backend-focused colleagues to do similarly for other topics. Being aware of sampling bias is good and useful; I'd just worry a bit about pulling too hard on that ripcord here.