Timeline for Suggest a question for the 2013 Stack Overflow User Survey
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| Dec 4, 2013 at 13:06 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Once Upon a Dev | ||
| Dec 4, 2013 at 10:52 | history | edited | asheeshr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Cant get italics + bold to work correctly. Argh!! Updated as per suggestions.
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| Dec 4, 2013 at 10:50 | comment | added | user217110 | My point was that I wouldn't know what I majored in nor could I pin my education to a single area (post degree). I don't know about other countries but this won't make any sense in the UK. I couldn't tell you one academic field of study I did in school, the UK system is a lot broader. It also changes, some people would of done O-levels younger people A-levels, younger people still do something completely different (I have no idea what this is even called these days). It's a good suggestion but I just don't think it's practical given the complexity of many countries education systems. | |
| Dec 4, 2013 at 10:37 | comment | added | asheeshr | Also, the term major is not used in India, but it seems to be used in the USA, which is why I included it since USA forms 30% of the respondents. Feel free to suggest alternatives, more meaningful divisions/classifications for educational qualifications to make it answerable for everybody :) | |
| Dec 4, 2013 at 10:29 | comment | added | asheeshr | @Liam GCSE seems to be a compulsory school leaving exam? Also, the A-level system seems to be restricted to just 6 countries. In such cases, assuming you had to fill in a field whose options were not what you had experienced, what would you do? My guess would be to just Google one or two phrases to see which comes closest. Note that this question is intended to be just a rough measure of the degree of education amongst users. | |
| Dec 4, 2013 at 9:53 | comment | added | user217110 | Yeah, I didn't major in anything, I don't even know what this means. I have GCSEs and A-levels.... | |
| Dec 4, 2013 at 9:36 | comment | added | Sklivvz Mod | Also keep in mind that academic qualifications are not generally portable across countries | |
| Dec 4, 2013 at 8:50 | comment | added | user217110 | Do you even have an academic qualification should be an option. I've worked with many programmers who have had no formal training what-so-ever. | |
| Dec 4, 2013 at 5:39 | history | edited | asheeshr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 4 characters in body
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| Dec 4, 2013 at 5:29 | history | answered | asheeshr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |