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How were the racial backgrounds used by The Loop and previous surveys designed?
Unfortunately I need to be a bit blunt since they were poorly designed.1 While it is reasonable to assume that the cultural background of a Stack Overflow (SO) user would result in different ...
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How were the racial backgrounds used by The Loop and previous surveys designed?
I think that part of the survey was implemented following Hanlon's razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
But let's better call it incompetence, as ...
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How were the racial backgrounds used by The Loop and previous surveys designed?
The groups mentioned above are somewhat different to those used by the
US census
Of course. Because such attempts to group are always built on pseudo-biological theory.
Attempting to categorise ...
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What were the complaints filed under "other" in the survey data?
From our UX researcher who was involved with coding the survey responses:
We coded responses as Other for miscellaneous issues that were not captured in the other coding categories. Some examples of ...
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What does "comments" mean in the coded responses to the Site Satisfaction Survey Summer 2019?
I talked to Carla, who's leading the work interpreting the responses we get from the Site Satisfaction survey and she was able to give me some info for you. Responses were added to this group if they ...
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Bug in survey question
The intent here is that you've never used our platform at all - because this survey will appear widely across the internet, many people who take it do not use our site. Internally here at Stack ...
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Why does "WordPress" not show up in the 2022 Developer Survey?
Answering this question:
Why isn't WordPress in that list, considering that it is widely more popular?
No one mentioned WordPress when there was a callout by SE staff for review on the language / ...
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I already took the census. Why does the 'Census' badge not show on my profile?
It is not possible to "link" your survey to your account - results are completely anonymous and never connected to a specific account.
If for some reason you weren't offered the Census badge,...
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Add timestamps to developer survey
The 2017 edition has a Methodology section that states:
The survey fielded from January 12th to February 6th, consistent with last year.
The initial analysis was announced today (March 22) on the ...
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How were the racial backgrounds used by The Loop and previous surveys designed?
How did the people behind "The Loop", and previous surveys, decide upon the categorisation of racial backgrounds?
...
The groups mentioned above are somewhat different to those used by the ...
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Census badge description is not used in localization engine
This looks fixed now. The problem possibly was on the Transifex side, or/and cache-related:
Some extra discussion can be found in chat (be careful: Russians inside).
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How can I know the number of developers who do not have a Stack Overflow account and answered the 2016 Developer Survey
You can't. Out of the total 56,033 participants, only 27,938 gave their profile ID with the survey. (As stated at Developer Survey Results
2016 — Community III. Asking and Answering). You can see the ...
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Which Stack Exchange sites show a banner for the 2019 Developer Survey?
Curiosity got the better of me and I wrote a small script to investigate. Here are the results.
The following sites show the banner and have the Census badge:
Blender
Magento
Salesforce
Raspberry Pi
...
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