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But why are they "burned out"? Is it because they're a software developer or because they live in an advanced post-industrial civilization in the midst of a glo
by danenania 5y ago
But why are they "burned out"? Is it because they're a software developer or because they live in an advanced post-industrial civilization in the midst of a global pandemic? Could they feel burned out today but not tomorrow? Has the sun come out in the UK at any time in the last two weeks? Do all the participants even agree on the definition of "burnout"? Were there five other similar studies done that we don't know about that were discarded because they didn't produce the desired click-baity conclusion?
I could go on and on.
- mateo411 5y agoIt's important that the 258 were uniformly drawn from the population of software engineers in the UK. It's not important whether the sun came out in the last two weeks or not, unless we were trying to measure the weather affecting burn out. It's true different people might have a different interpretation of burn out, but it should be pretty similar to other people. I'm going to assume all people who took the study understand the idea behind burn out. The point of the poll isn't to answer why but to measure the percentage of burn out with some degree of accuracy. The margin of error in this poll was 4.5%. That's how all yes/no polling works. We don't know that 83% of people are burnt out, but we are reasonably confident that 78% to 88% of people are burnt out.