Jun 14, 2011
aaronwhite: thegongshow: I *love* all the data exhaust coming out of Stack Exchange.   Here’s a simple chart demonstrating the correlation between the quality of a developer and age.  Older hackers rule. This is pretty cool stuff. Although, I’m sure there’s a real bias here towards older devs who are still involved w/ community are better hackers, because clearly the pool of them on stack exchange is much smaller, it makes it harder to trust the average rep as being indicative of older hackers as a whole.

aaronwhite:

thegongshow:

I *love* all the data exhaust coming out of Stack Exchange.  

Here’s a simple chart demonstrating the correlation between the quality of a developer and age.  Older hackers rule.

This is pretty cool stuff. Although, I’m sure there’s a real bias here towards older devs who are still involved w/ community are better hackers, because clearly the pool of them on stack exchange is much smaller, it makes it harder to trust the average rep as being indicative of older hackers as a whole.

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    Yes, there is definitely a survivorship bias here. The only 48 year old developers using StackOverflow are the ones who...
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    Two things: Experience leads to quality, & younger devs are more likely to do rather than share. Whether it is their...
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    Anyone else notice that the chart being used to show the value of experience and make an anti-ageist point… ends at age...
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    Hollywood and the tech space both are, but I think the underlying reason behind that is that many (Most? All?) of the...
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    This is pretty cool stuff. Although, I’m sure there’s...real bias here towards older devs...
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    think it’s funny we need...to show us experience is worthwhile. Our industry is so ageist.
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