[lelandfe]

The question from LaunchDarkly, btw, was as follows (asked to "500 software developers across a range of industries and job titles"):

> Have you or someone you worked with ever left a job due to pressures from over minimizing mistakes (i.e. avoiding rollbacks or failed deployments)?[0]

...Which I also would not be comfortable summarizing as "minimizing deployment errors"

[0] https://resources.launchdarkly.com/ebooks/release-assurance-...

[nrmitchi]

In any reasonable setting this would be considered priming the respondent for a particular answer and should definitely not be trusted as an unbiased response.

[eurasiantiger]

Not far off from handing packs of free cigarettes to medical conference attendees, having an exit poll ask them which brand of cigarettes they have in their pocket, and using the results in marketing like ”69% of doctors smoke Narcoholic brand cigarettes!”

[mytailorisrich]

What does "over minimising mistakes" mean? I would expect that the target for 'mistakes', especially serious ones' is zero (while accepting that it may be asymptotic).

[Aeolun]

I think one they’re talking about 3 month long QA cycles for every deployment.

[edmcnulty101]

oh that is so sneaky and that would never fly in a scientific study.