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"With around 60% of users identifying themselves as web developers or software engineers [...]" That's probably the more interesting point

by th 15y ago

citricsquid 15y ago
No, this is a god awful article. That's a new paragraph when it shouldn't be, that 60% is of the 25,000 single men (edit: No, it can't be even that, the author really messed up somewhere). There are not over 6,000,000 software engineers out of 10,000,000 on Google Plus.
- sukuriant 15y ago
  Why not? Is it that hard to believe that 6 million of the people that joined Google Plus early on are software engineers? I could believe it. They probably signed up to try and get involved, and a developer would be more likely to sign up to beta software than a non-developer, I would imagine. note: these are my speculations.
  - orangecat 15y ago
    Why not? Is it that hard to believe that 6 million of the people that joined Google Plus early on are software engineers? According to the BLS there are 3.2 million Americans in "Computer and mathematical occupations" (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.htm http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.htm), and there seems to be a reasonable consensus that 12 million is an upper bound for the world (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developers-are-there-in-the-world http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developer...). There's no way 6 million are on Google+ already.
  - citricsquid 15y ago
    over 40% of the top users listed on both sites cited by the article don't work as a software engineer. The majority of people I have in my circles are not software engineers. Assuming I am the average person then my own experience conflicts with that. However that wasn't my point, neither of the sources they cite (findpeopleonplus.com, socialstatistics.com) back up this assertion. If you look at findpeopleonplus, it says out of the 947,996 people it has that 65,733 are an engineer/developer type. That's less than 10%.
- orangecat 15y ago
  (edit: No, it can't be even that, the author really messed up somewhere) The only thing that makes any sense is that it's 60% of the people who listed their occupation. Even that seems high, but it might be plausible given that the initial invitees would have been the friends of Googlers.
  - jdp23 15y ago
    Correct. When they did this analysis, only about 12% of the profiles they looked at listed an occupation at all. http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/statistics http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/statistics
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jallmann 15y ago
>With around 60% of users identifying themselves as web developers or software engineers The other 40% are social media consultants.

"With around 60% of users identifying themselves as web developers or software engineers [...]" That's probably the more interesting point

by th 15y ago

"With around 60% of users identifying themselves as web developers or software engineers [...]" That's probably the more interesting point

citricsquid 15y ago

No, this is a god awful article. That's a new paragraph when it shouldn't be, that 60% is of the 25,000 single men (edit: No, it can't be even that, the author really messed up somewhere). There are not over 6,000,000 software engineers out of 10,000,000 on Google Plus.

sukuriant 15y ago
Why not? Is it that hard to believe that 6 million of the people that joined Google Plus early on are software engineers? I could believe it. They probably signed up to try and get involved, and a developer would be more likely to sign up to beta software than a non-developer, I would imagine. note: these are my speculations.
- orangecat 15y ago
  Why not? Is it that hard to believe that 6 million of the people that joined Google Plus early on are software engineers? According to the BLS there are 3.2 million Americans in "Computer and mathematical occupations" (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.htm http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.htm), and there seems to be a reasonable consensus that 12 million is an upper bound for the world (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developers-are-there-in-the-world http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developer...). There's no way 6 million are on Google+ already.
- citricsquid 15y ago
  over 40% of the top users listed on both sites cited by the article don't work as a software engineer. The majority of people I have in my circles are not software engineers. Assuming I am the average person then my own experience conflicts with that. However that wasn't my point, neither of the sources they cite (findpeopleonplus.com, socialstatistics.com) back up this assertion. If you look at findpeopleonplus, it says out of the 947,996 people it has that 65,733 are an engineer/developer type. That's less than 10%.
orangecat 15y ago
(edit: No, it can't be even that, the author really messed up somewhere) The only thing that makes any sense is that it's 60% of the people who listed their occupation. Even that seems high, but it might be plausible given that the initial invitees would have been the friends of Googlers.
- jdp23 15y ago
  Correct. When they did this analysis, only about 12% of the profiles they looked at listed an occupation at all. http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/statistics http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/statistics

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jallmann 15y ago

>With around 60% of users identifying themselves as web developers or software engineers The other 40% are social media consultants.