The poll so far between Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon. I think it looks less absurd than last time, but still pretty clear that the base is divided. https://elk.zone/hachyderm.io/@mitsuhiko/117500680388532802
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And obviously this survey is pretty biased, it will be influenced mostly by which audiences engage with it. It is really just a way for me to better understand what the people who follow me on these platforms think about agentic engineering.
@mitsuhiko I am a little confused at your usage of a confidence interval here, since AIUI none of these sites support random sampling...?
@ouguoc These polls are random samples so the "confidence intervals" only show how much the share is expected to change with a small sample, not how far it might be from any real population's answer.
@mitsuhiko Hmm, okay! This is honestly kind of a mystifying answer to me, but it at least it's good to know you don't mean to use it the way it is typically used.
@ouguoc I’m not sure there is a better way
@mitsuhiko Yeah, for whatever it's worth, I believe the point you're making (that the different sites you're on have drastically different populations in this regard). Don't think the CI is useful in this regard, so I think your argument would be stronger without it.
@mitsuhiko Amazing to see how few responses you got on Bluesky. Is that repräsentative of what you usually get in terms of interactions on the three networks? Just curious?
@michael That's because bluesky does not have a poll feature, so classified the replies instead
@mitsuhiko Ah interesting. How strange that they don’t have polls!
Thanks!
Hmmm. Can you make another picture and scale the bars with n ? Might be interesting.
@bmaxv why scale with n?
Why not? I mean... The number is already there.
I think ultimately the information from the result will be how dominant which opinion of AI is. So, it might be interesting to put the dominance *on* a platform in relation to the dominance *of* the platforms?
@bmaxv I'm trying to understand what the point of scaling to n is.
@mitsuhiko 🤔 .oO(write? I can not even able to read 20% of the code the AI writes... )
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btw if people are taking issue to the small sample sizes: fair. Here is an updated graph with more respondends. Bluesky of course, given the lack of poll feature, is trickier to get right.