Another year, another survey, another feedback report.
The good
This year questions covered many interesting topics and workplace questions, it was easy to flow up and didn't feel odd to answer most if not all of them.
The structure and the way it was organized made sense and the results (100.000 answers!) are clear, last year it was just 64,000, that means that 40.000 more users took the survey to the end! kudos.
The bad
Both looking at the survey data and remembering the questions, one clear point is that there is quite little difference between amateur devs and professional devs on most (if not all) graphs.
After generating the data, was it necessary to split most features between these two categories given the marginal difference in values?Maybe other metrics more relevant could have been chosen, I'm not sure.
The ugly
This year, again, the SO survey results report forgot about the existence of anything else than [World | USA] in response graph creation, or (in those that weren't [World | USA]) [Top 5 countries without a clear comparison context].
I hope that in future years, citizens from the rest of the world are taken in count and the data is displayed in reference to the socio-economical contexts they belong to, and not just "this place had more responses".
An example would be a 2-level menu between continents, and, inside those, continent averages or top 5 countries. Right now it serves little to no purpose to compare Germany with Canada or India, or to compare World (including USA? excluding USA?) vs. USA, without a wider context.
