Okay, originally I was going to write this off as mere blogspam but I wanted to have some fun.<p>Issues:<p>1. An ordinal scale with subjective verbiage?<p>2. An ordinal scale with no natural middle (there are six options!)?<p>3. An ordinal scale with 'select all that apply'?! How does that even work?<p>4. The percentages add to more than 100%! That's not how percentages work. At least normalize the scale -- or change the Y axis.<p>There's nothing wrong with trying to promote your analysis firm (I like RedMonk!) but at least try and, you know, have good analysis.
This was a something people claimed? I demand another poll that asks if they've heard of the phrase 'all developers love beer' and think it's a common belief!
I will never for the life of me understand the hate people have for Corona.<p>Granted, it should probably be classed under some yet unnamed category of beverage other than "beer", but I still like it.
I am a developer and yes I do like beer. I am a human, who would have thought? I also like long walks and holding hands with girls on the beach, then having sex. I hate the stereotype that makes it seem like developers are different to ordinary people, some of the developers I work with you wouldn't even be able to pick that they're developers, they don't walk around in Github t-shirts, wearing glasses and throwing words like release cycle and debugging around.
This is meaningless without comparing to non-developers, or the general population. For all we know from this data, developers may like beer <i>less</i> than non-developers. Combine this with the problems cited by jmduke, and I'm not sure it is enhancing the reputation of the "developer focused industry analyst firm" that published it. Yes, I have no sense of humor.
How does this compare to human beings in general (and then for men vs women)... I would imagine if you looked at data outside of developers, you'd see pretty much the same results, especially when taking into account the male bias in developer culture.
A few good beers:<p>* Delirium<p>* Anchor Steam<p>* Carlsberg<p>* Negra Modelo<p>Contrary to popular belief, Budweiser, Coors Lite, et. al. are not actually beers but rather beer-flavored water that also contains alcohol.
I'm curious if this is partly because of it being a male dominated profession. I would assume polls of other professions with such chromosome skew would produce similar results.