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The Great Tech Industry Demographic Survey of 2024
February 22, 2024
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There are a great many questions for which we simply don't have the answers.

  • Is there a correlation between a person's religion... and which text editor they prefer?
  • How about a relationship between the year they were born... and if they use Tabs or Spaces?
  • Are people who program in Rust more or less happy than people who program in Python?

Do you know the answers to those questions?  Because I sure don't!

We need these answers.

And now we have a way to get them.  Definitively.

The Great Tech Industry Demographic Survey of 2024

This survey is massive -- containing questions on everything from Operating System preferences to religion and politicsProgramming languages and... workplace discrimination.  Seriously.

All over the map!

But, in the end, we'll be able to glean a huge amount of understanding about the current state of the entire Tech Industry (or, at the very least, the people within it).

  • All answers are 100% anonymous (no account is needed).
  • All questions are optional (only answer the ones you feel comfortable with).
  • The questions are all presented in random order.
  • All of the (anonymous) results will be published.

Take the survey.  Should take no more than about 10 minutes.

In years past, The Lunduke Journal has conducted similar (but far simpler and smaller) surveys.  For those, we managed to get responses from thousands of computer nerds -- from a huge number of communities.

For this 2024 survey, let's go even bigger.  Spread it far and wide.  To every group of computer nerds on planet Earth -- nerds with every variety of software and programming language preference.  Of every religion and political allignment.

Every computer nerd.  Everywhere.

So.  When you have a few minutes to spare (in between Scrum meetings and 1-on-1's with your Team Lead) take the survey.  Then send it (or this article) to your friends.  Post it to whatever forum or social media you use.

The more nerds who take this survey, the more accurate (and interesting) the results will be.  Some of the results will be goofy and ridiculous (do Gen X'ers prefer Emacs?)... while others will be far more serious (which groups face the most discrimination within the Tech Industry?).

But, for all of it, I can't wait to find out the results!

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