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Only individuals who submitted multiple bad solutions before giving up were counted as failing. If you look but don't bother, or submit a single bad solution, y
by atomic128 2y ago
Only individuals who submitted multiple bad solutions before giving up were counted as failing. If you look but don't bother, or submit a single bad solution, you aren't counted. Thousands of individuals were tested on Hacker News and Reddit, and surprisingly, it's not even close: Reddit is where the hackers are. I mean, at the time of the testing, years ago.
- louthy 2y agoThat doesn’t change my point. It didn’t test every dev on all platforms, it tested a subset. That subset may well have different attributes to the ones that didn’t engage. So, it says nothing about the audience for the forums as a whole, just the few thousand that engaged. Perhaps even, there could be fewer Go programmers here and some just took a stab at it even though they don’t know the language. So it could just select for which forum has the most Go programmers. Hardly rigourous. So I’d take that with a pinch of salt personally
- atomic128 2y agoAgreed. But remember, this isn't the only time the population has been tested. This is just the test (from two years ago, in 2022) that I happen to have a link to.
- louthy 2y agoThe population hasn’t been tested. A subset has.
- 59nadir 2y agoIt's also fine to be an outlier. I've been programming for 24 years and have been hanging out on HackerNews on and off for 11. HN was way more relevant to me 11 years ago than it is now, and I don't think that's necessarily only because the subject matter changed, but probably also because I have.