[Haskell-community] 2018 state of Haskell survey results

[Taylor Fausak]

Ok, I updated the function that checks for bad responses, re-ran the
script, and updated the announcement along with all the assets (charts,
tables, and CSV). Hopefully it's the last time, as I can't justify
spending much more time on this.
https://github.com/tfausak/tfausak.github.io/blob/6f9991758ffeed085c45dd97e4ce6a82a8b1a73f/_posts/2018-11-18-2018-state-of-haskell-survey-results.markdown

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018, at 2:32 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> Just wanted to add in: good catch Gershom on identifying the problem,
> and thank you Taylor for working to remove them from the report.> 
>> On 18 Nov 2018, at 21:17, Taylor Fausak <taylor at fausak.me> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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