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Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

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Date 2013-05-06 03:35 +1000
Subject Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Ignoramus16992
<ignoramus16992@nospam.16992.invalid> wrote:
> According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year,
> while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year.
>
> http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97819?source=ifwartcio#slide10
> http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97819?source=ifwartcio#slide11
>
> I would like to know, what explains the discrepancy.
>
> Thank you!

Once, I was young and foolish too, and an ignoramus, just like you. [1]

There's a big problem with comparing statistical averages without any
indication of their spread. Suppose these are the salaries involved:

Perl = [15000, 30000, 80000, 100000, 143000, 190000]
Python = [15000, 30000, 80000, 100000, 190000]

That is, the guy who's making 143K a year didn't mention that he's
using Python. Voila! Your averages differ, yet statistically, there's
not a lot of difference. The best way to know how useful the averages
are is to look at the distribution, eg look at the difference between
the highest and lowest values, or the standard deviation of the
sample, or something of that sort. Without that, there's no way of
knowing whether a 10K difference is at all significant. I would posit
that, among salaries, it's meaningless.

ChrisA

[1] I don't know if you're trolling or not, so I'll give a serious
response. But I'm going to start with a quote from Emerald Isle.
http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/sullivan/emerald_isle/web_opera/ei14.html

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Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Ignoramus16992 <ignoramus16992@NOSPAM.16992.invalid> - 2013-05-05 12:11 -0500
  Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Stephan Vladimir Bugaj <sbugaj@pixar.com> - 2013-05-05 10:32 -0700
  Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Stephan Vladimir Bugaj <sbugaj@pixar.com> - 2013-05-05 10:33 -0700
  Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-05 18:34 +0100
  Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 03:35 +1000
  Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-05 10:35 -0700
    Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-05 19:24 +0100
  Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-05 18:52 +0100
  Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-05 13:58 -0400
    Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-05 19:13 +0000
      Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@gmail.com> - 2013-05-05 23:05 +0200
      Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-05 17:07 -0400
        Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-05 17:37 -0400
          Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-05 17:49 -0400
        Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2013-05-07 17:02 -0400
  Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-05 19:10 +0000
    Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-05-05 20:37 +0000
      Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-05-05 22:09 +0100
        Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-05-05 21:33 +0000
          Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-05 17:35 -0400
            Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-05-05 21:43 +0000
        Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 08:24 +1000
    Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2013-05-05 14:34 -0700
    Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers llanitedave <llanitedave@veawb.coop> - 2013-05-05 23:13 -0700
      Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 07:28 +0100
        Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-06 07:41 -0400
      Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 17:30 +1000
        Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-06 12:03 +0000
          Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 17:04 +0100
      Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 08:49 +0100
        Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 06:22 -0700
          Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 23:32 +1000
            Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2013-05-07 13:41 -0700
            Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> - 2013-05-07 21:14 +0000
          Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 14:35 +0100
          Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Steve Simmons <square.steve@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 15:17 +0100
            Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-08 03:06 +0000
          Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-05-07 14:40 -0400
          Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Neil Hodgson <nhodgson@iinet.net.au> - 2013-05-08 10:34 +1000
            Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2013-05-07 18:11 -0700
              Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-08 03:43 -0700
            Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-08 02:22 +0100
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      Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 08:58 +0100
      Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 18:02 +1000
      Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 10:00 +0100
  Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-05-05 14:17 -0700
    Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Ignoramus16992 <ignoramus16992@NOSPAM.16992.invalid> - 2013-05-05 18:05 -0500
  Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Henry Law <news@lawshouse.org> - 2013-05-06 07:07 +0100
    Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Ignoramus30465 <ignoramus30465@NOSPAM.30465.invalid> - 2013-05-06 20:53 -0500

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