[dahart]

> I don’t accept you can survey 90000 developers and cannot offer any generalization from those results without quantitatively proving there is an overwhelming sample bias

I didn’t see anyone point this out here yet specifically, but what you’re missing is that these 90k devs chose to respond to the survey, and the group is made of only SO participants, they were not developers selected at random. That’s the problem here.

There is an overwhelming bias, and it has been proved. Stack Overflow admits that openly and Julia talked about it in her answer to the OP’s commentary:

“Developers from underrepresented groups in tech participate on Stack Overflow at lower rates, so we undersample those groups, compared to their participation in the software developer workforce. We have data that confirms that”