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- From: swh7333@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Steve Haffner)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: US v. the World in SE (Statistics)
- Keywords: Skeptical
- Message-ID: <4309@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:52:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.211654.15244@miles.com>
- Organization: Boeing
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Nov18.211654.15244@miles.com> rms@miles.com (Rob Schultz) writes:
- > Unofficial estimates of the number of software
- >developers and managers as of roughly 1991:
- >
- >Country Developers Managers Total
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- >USA 1,693,200 253,980 1,947,180
- >USSR 1,445,000 216,750 1,661,750
- >India 1,252,500 187,875 1,440,375
- >China 990,000 148,500 1,138,500
- >Japan 850,000 127,500 977,500
- >Germany 505,600 75,840 581,440
- >Indonesia 460,000 69,000 529,000
- >Brazil 441,000 66,150 507,150
- >England 370,550 55,575 426,075
- >Italy 365,400 54,810 420,210
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- I was curious about the ratio of developers to managers.
- Imagine my surprise to find that all of the above countries
- have exactly the same ratio: 6.667 to 1!
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- Which of the above numbers do you suppose were made up?
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- Steve Haffner
- Seattle, Washington
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