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The Experience in IT bar chart is underwhelming, it would be nice to see the breakdown by incremental years of experience in IT. NONE of the year ranges span the same number of years. Making a basic inference from the percentages and bins it would seem that Python use is negatively correlated with years of experience.

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Also you can compare it with the age below. Most people are 21-29 years old, but have 11+ years of experience? I think the meta-physics of the job market make people write bigger numbers than truthfully would apply.

A smarter way might be to ask when was the first month/year that one got paid for python dev work and then calculate the experience number oneself.

The pool of respondents aged 30-39 was 31% and all 30+ was 49%. So 25% of all respondents having 11+ years in IT shouldn't be farfetched. I myself am in my late twenties and I'm not far from 11 years of professional experience.

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