This reminds me about that saying: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.' According to the table about relative popularity of prog

This reminds me about that saying: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.' According to the table about relative popularity of programming languages, Javascript (5.2%) and C# (5%) have only 5 times the popularity of Scala (1%) and Haskell (1.2%). In most contexts, this data is just wrong. This just proves that unless you know or show the underlying method and context, quoting statistical summaries is almost completely pointless in trying to enhance your point. I realize that this is probably being a bit pedantic as that graphic is hardly the main point of the article however it does tend to place a question mark over the rest of the article when a seemingly dishonest bit of data is used to help prop up other points.