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It means the stereotypical commenters are 20-30 year old, white, male, single, programmers, living in the Bay Area and making $400,000 per year. Which is good
by slyall 5y ago
It means the stereotypical commenters are 20-30 year old, white, male, single, programmers, living in the Bay Area and making $400,000 per year.
Which is good if you want to know the latest Google gossip or many tech questions. But not as good when we are talking about topics that are less directly in the experience of the above people.
As an example when you are talking about public transport they have experience that comes from living in the US. Rather than somewhere a bit less car-centric.
A tech example might be that money and VC dollars are plentiful but programmers are expensive and that non-programmers are less important in a business.
There are plenty of people that are not like that, but the site has a definite bias that way.
- dotancohen 5y ago> It means the stereotypical commenters are 20-30 year old, white, male, single, programmers, living in the Bay Area and making $400,000 per year. I'm 2/6 on that scale, but I feel like a rather average commenter here. I suppose that the standard deviation is huge on this.
- robertlagrant 5y ago> It means the stereotypical commenters are 20-30 year old, white, male, single, programmers, living in the Bay Area and making $400,000 per year I appreciate the clarity. What I don't understand is that given "stereotypical" and "typical" are definitely not synonyms, why do you think your stereotype reflects the actual demographics?
- tpoacher 5y agoThat would put the total number of stereotypical commenters here to about 100 people. The conjunction fallacy and all that.