[tonyarkles]

I’m with you. How does the saying go? “All models are flawed, some models are useful.”

This survey obviously does not tap directly into the brains of every developer on the planet and extract their unbiased answers to the questions. But it’s still a useful model for seeing trends in the software industry.

Further, from my personal perspective, I’m pretty ok with the self-selected sampling bias inherent in the survey. The kinds of developers who see the value of Stackoverflow and are willing to participate voluntarily in the survey are the kinds of developers whose opinions I generally care about :). That’s my own bias, which I acknowledge exists, and it doesn’t particularly bother me.

Edit: further, none of the results jump out at me as particularly surprising. If there were some extraordinary results here, I’d want someone to do a more rigorous follow-up to dig into that, but there isn’t so...