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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<<
Date: 1999/02/12
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In article <7a1m6c$5i3@drn.newsguy.com>, kevin@nospamworld.com writes:

> The sample (http://www.dice.com) is the best public sampling available to
> many of us. extroplating (sp?) based on small samples is done all that time,
> offcourse it will be nice to have a larger sample to have more confidence.

The size of a sample does not guarantee its accuracy, selection criteria
must be considered.

http://www.dice.com is certainly an excellent selection of those who
choose to advertise on the Internet and choose dice.com as their vehicle.
It is, in fact, the definitive selection for those criteria.

>From the (few) advertisements I have seen for dice.com, I would not at
all consider them a source of serious software engineers if I wanted to
hire one.

Larry Kilgallen