>>This is confirmation bias.
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But you made the original claim, therefore the burden is on you to provide supporting evidence.
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But you made the original claim, therefore the burden is on you to provide supporting evidence.
There's nothing there that indicating mood disorders, waking hours, or screen time even are wildly outside the norm for the middle class working population.
Anyways, I don't care about this fact too much. I'm going to continue believing that the majority of software engineers have fairly typical social lives, and my own observations don't conflict with this.
I don't care much about this, because the point I was making was that categorizing oneself in buckets like "software engineer" to justify one's misery is counterproductive, and even if 95% of software engineers were miserable I still think it be worth working towards that 5% rather than worrying about stereotypes.