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Some of those stats could use better context. At least for what I am curious about. Just for example, the years of experience of developers who visit SO. It wo
by tchaffee 6y ago
Some of those stats could use better context. At least for what I am curious about. Just for example, the years of experience of developers who visit SO.
It would be interesting if we knew that in the larger world, equal number of programmers were in each experience bracket. So then we could see which experience group visits SO the most often. But we already know there are far more programmers with 5 to 9 years experience than there are programmers with 35 to 39 years experience. So are those stats showing anything other than the natural bell curve of experience distribution of all programmers in the world?
If we had the experience distribution over all programmers whether or not they visit SO that we could compare with, it would be interesting to see any differences. My guess is that there isn't. I bet highly experienced programmers visit SO just as often as those with 5 to 9 years experience.
Maybe to a recruiter or for someone paying for job adverts, those numbers are interesting on their own.