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by tomsyouruncle 1897 days ago
This statistic actually says nothing at all about 90% of the people who took the test so the headline is pretty misleading.

You can’t really talk about “Australian developers” (or indeed any other nation’s) and ignore 90% of the distribution !

It’s a bit absurd to say you’re not using the mean because you’re worried about the effect of outliers and then instead choose a statistic that largely focuses on outliers! Why not use the median?