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Scope of survey participants? #1
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Thank you so much for your thoughtful feedback! Could you please take a look at the first paragraph of the Raw Data section?https://www.jetbrains.com/research/python-developers-survey-2017/#raw-data It says "The data include responses only from official Python Software Foundation channels. After filtering out duplicate responses, the data-set includes all of the 9,500+ responses collected during October, 2017, via promoting the survey on python.org, the PSF blog, the PSF’s Twitter and LinkedIn accounts, official Python mailing lists, and Python-related subreddits. No product-, service-, or vendor-related channels were used, in order to prevent the survey from being slanted in favor of any specific tool or technology." |
One thing that struck me was the overwhelming bias towards PyCharm (either edition) over anything else for an IDE/editor. Now if the survey only went out to JetBrain's users that would be expected. However, this was supposedly done in partnership with the PSF so I am genuinely curious as to what extent non-PyCharm users were involved here.
It's not my intent to bash on PyCharm, JetBrains or the survey at all. I love PyCharm and I also love VIM. I just don't recall seeing any mention of how the participants were "obtained". Otherwise, I thought this was all very well done and quite interesting and was elated to see Py3 gaining so much traction.