Re^2: Perl Developer Survey 2017 results are available

> I was a bit irritated that “vim” and “Atom” were on the multiple choice for IDEs while things like “Emacs” and “TextMate” (and as hippo mentioned, “Padre”) were not.

Already the order of choices can mess up a result, notwithstanding the absence.

There is this famous example of the US Census question for ancestry, where the numbers jump considerably depending on order.

I remember reading (hopefully correctly) that the number of "Croatian Americans" once doubled when it was the first choice.

Now guess the number of emacs users if it wasn't just a text to fill in for other choices.

> Still, nicely presented results and always good to do publicity oriented / conversation starter stuff for Perl.

Consequently the monastery should start serious polls in the voting booth with nice pie charts? :)

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

Je suis Charlie!}

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Re^3: Perl Developer Survey 2017 results are available by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Apr 27, 2017 at 16:39 UTC
Related answer order story. I wrote a CGI quiz maker for non-techies/trainers at Amazon that took a simply formatted plaintext file and turned it into a webform. I randomized answer order. But I actually did it out of concern for cheating, not fair presentation of options.	[reply]