Not really… coming from someone who has experienced imposter syndrome.

“Confidence is about what we can and can't do. Imposter Syndrome is about who we think we are.”

Imposter syndrome makes you feel like a fraud or you don’t belong. It has nothing to do with what you feel you can and can’t do.

Usa needs to step up our game

Then DC would be at the bottom of the list..

I'd be curious to see how the survey questions were worded. It could be possible the female participants were more likely to admit to having imposter syndrome, even though a similar number of males have the same confidence issues.

Also, high school curriculum may be a big factor that isn't addressed. Getting higher grades in irrelevant subjects would be less valuable than average grades in courses that provide an introduction to software development.

They're very similar things.

One thing to consider is that the mortgage interest rate was 9% in 1975. So $100k in 2022 dollars then is equivalent to $150k now at 5% for a 30 year loan. Or $190k at 3%.

Then it should be called that, because not being confident and imposter syndrome are two different things.

It's a measure of their confidence, not necessarily what they know.

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Sounds like an experiment that have freshmen as their subjects who are extremely encouraged to participate

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> Around 80% of those surveyed responded.

Holy cow that's an incredible response rate! Were responses incentivized in any way?

Okay then I have to ask, how can someone who is an absolute noob in their field of study have imposter syndrome?

Knowing next to nothing is basically the definition of what is expected of you.

As a Hungarian I'm surprised we didn't make the top10

They are first year students.

Why did you focus on highschool grades? They represent nothing of value for how good someone can do as software engineer.

I don't know.

Data Source: A 50 question survey that my team and I conducted at my university. Around 80% of those surveyed responded. The male:female ratio of those surveyed was 3:2, which was roughly equal to the gender ratio of respondents (also 3:2).

Survey Methodology: For this particular question, survey participants were asked to provide their high school average to 1 decimal place and rate their imposter syndrome on a scale of 0 to 10 (0 being nonexistent or extremely low, 10 being extremely high).

Tools Used: Google Forms for data collection, Node.js for data cleaning/formatting/analysis, React.js for data visualization. Added additional labels and statistics using Affinity Designer. Took about 300 lines of JavaScript code in total.

Based on the graph, it seems that women face far greater imposter syndrome than men, when starting a Software Engineering degree, despite having similar high school averages.

Questions and criticisms welcome.

Who knew Gabon partied that hard?

This sub is 90+% look at this controversial or interesting data. Actual design has little to do with most posts. It's usually the most basic shit that gains traction and hits the front page at this point.

I can't speak for all of us but as far as I know, we don't

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I like the idea of “everything required to survive”

"in your lifetime"? Really?

Something tells me this comment won't age well.

State by State in the USA*.

/r/USDefaultism as per fucking usual.