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Do developers really love beer, or is it just a myth?

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Re: Do developers really love beer, or is it just a myth?

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Developers also, on average, enjoy sex, recreational activities, and going on vacation. And bacon. Never forget the bacon.

Contrary to popular belief, the evidence suggests that developers are in fact people.

Perhaps, but correlation does not imply causation.

Re: Do developers really love beer, or is it just a myth?

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Okay, originally I was going to write this off as mere blogspam but I wanted to have some fun.

Issues:

1. An ordinal scale with subjective verbiage?

2. An ordinal scale with no natural middle (there are six options!)?

3. An ordinal scale with 'select all that apply'?! How does that even work?

4. The percentages add to more than 100%! That's not how percentages work. At least normalize the scale -- or change the Y axis.

There's nothing wrong with trying to promote your analysis firm (I like RedMonk!) but at least try and, you know, have good analysis.

Re: Do developers really love beer, or is it just a myth?

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post #7

Okay, originally I was going to write this off as mere blogspam but I wanted to have some fun. Issues: 1. An ordinal scale with subjective verbiage? 2. An ordinal scale with no natural middle (there are six options!)? 3. An ordinal scale with 'select all that apply'?! How does that even work? 4. The percentages add to more than 100%! That's not how percentages work. At least normalize the scale -- or change the Y axi…

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Re: Do developers really love beer, or is it just a myth?

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I will never for the life of me understand the hate people have for Corona. Granted, it should probably be classed under some yet unnamed category of beverage other than "beer", but I still like it.

I don't know if it's just my area of north England but Corona is consider quote a good drink, and you always get it with a lime.
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