@yo
The issue is that they are not providing the raw (or cleaned) data to be analyzed "correctly". I think there are a lot of statistical assumptions that are not clarified in the methodology. Also lack of reporting the variance makes it pretty unreliable about trends.

For example the report says 0.6% of participants have primary and elementary school education!

Perhaps the only "reliable" part is the age-range of users:

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/developer-profile#6-age

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@Mehrad Oh, they don't? I think they used to do this in previous editions.

I've always thought there's a couple of interesting data analysis things to do there. (E.g. show stuff which is different when you fix one variable; for example, how devs from country X differ from the average.)

Shame.