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… is it? For example, the Stack Overflow survey says Rust was loved by 86% of its users, while Go by 64%. Rust also beat Go on the percentage of respondents who
by Smaug123 4y ago
… is it? For example, the Stack Overflow survey says Rust was loved by 86% of its users, while Go by 64%. Rust also beat Go on the percentage of respondents who wanted to use it. (But Golang was used by 2% more respondents than Rust, at 11.15% vs 9.32%.)
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dre...
- morelisp 4y agoDescribing that as "2% more" instead of "20% more" is a bit misleading when comparing just two items.
- Smaug123 4y agoSorry, I intended to say "2% more of the respondents". That was what I had in my mind when I wrote it. (In general, my opinion is that Relative Statistics Considered Harmful, they're like absolute statistics but with all the context removed, and I never intend to give them.)