Estimating the number of J programmers in HN

4 months ago 9

In statistic you can estimate the population size by coloring fishes that you put in a lake and some time later you fish in that lake, the proportion of colored fishes allow you to estimate the size of the population.

Four month ago I posted some J identities [1] and there was only one comment, yesterday I posted another J code and the only comment was from the same commenter (or colored fish), so there must be very few J programmers in HN, or more precisely, very few that post J related material.

Also I have posted many times with many accounts (sorry for that), and when looking for J comments I usually find mine among them.

Since many people dislike J code and downvote such code it could be that avoiding being downvoted means that fishes flee to not be captured, so this estatistical method could be biased.

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