From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ed45459060d00f87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kevin@nospamworld.com Subject: Re: US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<< Date: 1999/02/12 Message-ID: <7a1m6c$5i3@drn.newsguy.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 443685254 References: <79scn2$k04@drn.newsguy.com> <36C2036B.D2B4B148@pwfl.com> <36C24646.804BC44E@stny.lrun.com> <79tk4j$cqf@drn.newsguy.com> <36C2E425.D4A791E9@hercii.mar.lmco.com> <79urm0$f1o@drn.newsguy.com> <7a1e6b$68e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://www.newsguy.com] Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7a1e6b$68e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com says... >> says... >> It is more than a guess. It is based on a small sampling >> I agree, but it is the same small sample used for C++ >> also. > >It's amazing what muddled thinking people have on such >statistic issues. > >If you take a very small sample, which is almost certainly >not representative, and then extend an observation, which >even if the sample were representative would have limited >confidence, to a universal statement, then of *course* >it is a guess! > 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. But the main point is, you have not given us any other source of data to counter the data presented by dice. At least I point to some concrete data. You want us to believe that Ada programmers make as well or even better than C/C++/Java/VB programmers, when at the same time there is hardly any positions open for Ada programmers and the few that are open are in insignificant amount compared to the rest, this makes it a little hard to understand your argument. Kevin.