Every #Mastodon / #Fediverse poll that includes the text "boost for larger sample size" should be required to have "Dewey Defeats Truman" as one of the poll answers.
#peeve #PetPeeve #statistics #poll #sample #bias #DeweyDefeatsTruman #SamplingError #SamplingBias
Every single one of those suffers from severe self-selection biases - and even if a representative sample could be correctly taken, they're not actually closely related to how programming languages are matched to various problems.
It's lazy, click-baity #journalism at best, and #listicle fodder in actual fact most of the time.
[1] #CTOs may like to pick "popular" languages so they have more programmers to pick from, lowering what they need to #pay. See "Java", 1998-2015.
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RT @Joinup_eu: ℹ️ ReGenesees is a full-fledged R software for design-based & model-assisted analysis of complex #SampleSurveys.
🎯It aims at defining a new standard for calibration, estimation & #SamplingError assessment for all large-scale sample surveys.
👉https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/statistics/solution/regenesees-system/about
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_opendata/status/1633404808819359744
