[Haskell-community] 2018 state of Haskell survey results

[Taylor Fausak]

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?
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