Inside the Hacker's Profiling Project (NewsForge)

Inside the Hacker's Profiling Project (NewsForge)

Posted Nov 4, 2006 13:06 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Inside the Hacker's Profiling Project (NewsForge) by proski
Parent article: Inside the Hacker's Profiling Project (NewsForge)

Wow, the questionnaire is really inane. Witness section A-d): socio-economic status, with just one question:

d) Socio-economic status:

1) What is your socio-economic status?
Low
Average-Low
Average-High
High

I'm sure most "hackers" will answer this one honestly. Then one day you see in a newspaper a heading like: "85% of hackers come from a high socio-economic background" and you wonder how did they come to that conclusion.

Every few months I like to be reminded why I stopped reading newspapers and now get my tech news from specialized places like LWN.

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