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> it could even be the same people dreading a language as loving it Are they not literally inverses of each other? It's two ways of stating the same number, no
by morelisp 5y ago
> it could even be the same people dreading a language as loving it
Are they not literally inverses of each other? It's two ways of stating the same number, not something you can take as two data points.
- ironmagma 5y agoThe survey doesn’t say how the data was collected, but there has to at least be a middle “neutral” option because the two numbers don’t always add to 100%. Semantically they are opposites, but so are love and hate, and we know that a person can love and hate another person at the same time, or so the songs tell us.
- morelisp 5y agoThey do always add up to 100%.
- ironmagma 5y agoI think you’re right, it was confusing because sometimes it was only to 99% but that’s probably rounding. Disappointing and a poor survey methodology or at least poor presentation. There are definitely some languages I both love and dread, like Java and it would be nice to see those as separate metrics.