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d_m suggested this poll here. Since he's got a free account, I figured I'd oblige.He anticipates that the results will be directly proportional. I'd expect they'd be flat-out correlated. Let's find out.
Poll #258018 Suicide by Software.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 34
On a scale from 1 to 10, how much does the average piece of software make you want to kill yourself?
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Mean: 5.76 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.57
Mean: 5.76 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.57
| 1 |
   2 (6.1%) |
| 2 |
| 2 (6.1%) |
| 3 |
| 6 (18.2%) |
| 4 |
| 0 (0.0%) |
| 5 |
| 5 (15.2%) |
| 6 |
| 1 (3.0%) |
| 7 |
| 6 (18.2%) |
| 8 |
| 8 (24.2%) |
| 9 |
| 1 (3.0%) |
| 10 |
| 2 (6.1%) |
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much experience do you have as a programmer or systems administrator?
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Mean: 6.79 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.45
Mean: 6.79 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.45
| 1 |
| 1 (2.9%) |
| 2 |
| 3 (8.8%) |
| 3 |
| 0 (0.0%) |
| 4 |
| 3 (8.8%) |
| 5 |
| 1 (2.9%) |
| 6 |
| 3 (8.8%) |
| 7 |
| 7 (20.6%) |
| 8 |
| 8 (23.5%) |
| 9 |
| 4 (11.8%) |
| 10 |
| 4 (11.8%) |
March 4 2004, 15:07:00 UTC 8 years ago
March 4 2004, 15:10:38 UTC 8 years ago
See also.
Subject of the post.March 4 2004, 15:33:27 UTC 8 years ago
March 5 2004, 00:10:39 UTC 8 years ago
March 5 2004, 03:30:11 UTC 8 years ago
Happily, lj lets me be lazy about this.
kill self: Mean: 6.14 Median: 7 Std. Dev: 2.33experience: Mean: 6.97 Median: 7 Std. Dev: 2.33
Despite efforts of those like
"Kill author" as a third party candidate probably would have completely skewed the results, so it's a good thing I kept this to an artificially two-choice system (you know, like voting in the US).