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Comment by minimaxir

Whenever a statistical report uses averages (and no medians anywhere), I always look for a sample size, since it gives an indicator on the potential variation for the true average. (Error is inversely proportional to square root of sample size)

So I checked the methodology and found something odd.

> The salaries included reflect more than 80,000 interview requests and job offers from the past year

Why are interview requests and job offers lumped together? Wouldn't there be disproportionally more interviews by definition? As a result, it's very hard to gauge the sample size of the salary data.

parent minimaxir 11 years ago

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