This one was fun.

IT leader: “Wow, I think this developer is great.”
HR: “Really? What do they do?”
IT leader: “They built this excellent application.”
HR: “Well, are they better than the other developer who built ten applications?”
IT leader: “That depends on what you mean by 'better.'”

After all...that 1 application happened to be called Google.

@coliver said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly:

@scottalanmiller said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly:

@coliver said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly:

@scottalanmiller said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly:

@coliver said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly:

@scottalanmiller said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly:

@coliver said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly:

For instance a female is twice as likely, as a percentage of the populations, to get raped in Canada as they are in the US.

How did you find that? The listed numbers listed it as "rate", which means that the percentage of population is already considered. So how did it get to twice, conflicting with teh posted rate?

On the next page there is a heading for Rape Victims. I think I might be mistaken on what it actually is referring to though.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Rape-rate

Right, I was trying to figure out the difference between Rape rate and Rape victims.

In the original list they used rate, which is the important one.

Right, agreed rate is the important one.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Rape-victims

So what is the significance of this one? Ah this may have been a surveyed question. Which explains the difference.

Not sure, but it's definitely female only and male rape is totally discounted. That's not a huge number, it it is a skew.

@mlnews said in University or the Lotto?:

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This is an absolute truth.

Learn to remember all of the things, and you're golden.

@scottalanmiller It is for that reason that I never say something is impossible. If I can't come up with a good way to do something, then I'll say "I don't know, let me ask some other folks" and see what everybody else has done in my situation...

@dafyre said:

@Joy I had to reread that, Joy... Maybe it's just too close to the end of my day, but I swear the first time I read it, I saw' Breaking my head on users"...

Oh well, yes, I have been in that situation. In my previous company, some guys from Uni used to be our new Trainee in production., they keep fighting for what they want 😁

I could be wrong, the market consensus does not agree with me. Nearly everyone says that it is a booming field and will be huge. But I've seen that behaviour before and that is what people said about teaching, nursing and nearly every other field that rapidly becomes over saturated and all of the people working in that field see incomes plummet and people entering the field end up without a way to get a job because experienced people already have them all.

The problem here is that security is one of those jobs that sounds cool to teachers, parents and kids. Tell a kid that being a "system admin" is cool and they won't have a clue why. Tell them that they will be on a "security team" and it sounds neat to the layman. Anything that normal people know about in IT.... can only be so high up in the field.