Ok, I updated the function that checks for bad responses, re-ran the script, and updated the announcement along with all the assets (charts, tables, and CSV). Hopefully it's the last time, as I can't justify spending much more time on this. https://github.com/tfausak/tfausak.github.io/blob/6f9991758ffeed085c45dd97e4ce6a82a8b1a73f/_posts/2018-11-18-2018-state-of-haskell-survey-results.markdown
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018, at 2:32 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote: > Just wanted to add in: good catch Gershom on identifying the problem, > and thank you Taylor for working to remove them from the report.> >> On 18 Nov 2018, at 21:17, Taylor Fausak <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Great catch, Gershom! There are indeed about 300 responses that tick >> all the boxes except for disliking the new GHC release schedule. The >> main thing the attacker seemed to be interested in was over- >> representing Stack and Stackage. Also, bizarrely, Java.>> >> That brings the number of bogus responses up to 3,735, which puts the >> number of legitimate responses at 1,361. For context, last year's >> survey asked far fewer questions and had 1,335 responses.>> >> >> On Sun, Nov 18, 2018, at 1:26 PM, Imants Cekusins wrote: >>> What if the announcement mentioned a large number of potentially >>> bogus responses, explained the grounds for this conclusion, with a >>> new survey conducted early next year?>>> >>> The next survey would then need to be done differently from this one >>> somehow. To improve the reliability, some authentication may be >>> necessary.>>> >>> >>> Maybe Stack, Cabal questions could be grouped as separate distinct >>> surveys, conducted by their maintainers through own channels?>>> >>> Not sure how much value is in exact numbers of users of Stack or >>> Cabal. Both groups are large enough. The maintainers of both groups >>> are aware about usage stats.>>> >>> Is either library likely to be influenced by this survey? >>> _________________________________________________ >>> Haskell-community mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community
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