It’s expected first year students know nothing about anything, so what qualifications do they feel they’re “faking”? You’re just experiencing real life for the first time and if you feel unqualified, it’s because most people are at that age.

This doesn't look like there's enough of a difference to draw the conclusion you gave given the data... its probably true based on my priors, but it isn't shown here...

Austria top 5 in general calories and beer calories lol

In trying to eyeball Arizona growth rate, I realize the scale is terrible.

Yes, either fit a regression to it or do like a KDE or something, it’s hard to tell what the distribution is because of the uneven sampling

I mean one can feel imposter syndrome in a wide range of situations. Don't get me wrong I'm kinda dubious of any conclusions being drawn from this data, but I think it is common (or at the very least possible) for a student who is used to being near the top of their class and is suddenly middle of the pack because of the competitive admissions process to feel imposter syndrome. They feel they aren't actually succeeding unless they're "winning", which obviously isn't actually how school works.

That said, because this is a survey before they have actually attended any amount of university, they don't have any actual context for what university is like and I get the feeling it's more based on their perception of the school and where it was in their list. Was it a safety school? Was it their top choice?

Can I invest in your ego? Seems like it’ll only go up from here.

Do this vs cumulative inflation and avocado toast. I wanna show my parents there is a reason I can’t buy a house and it’s not because of my avocado toast.

Would be interesting to later compare to university grades. I wouldn't be surprised if the men who were less different score better while women who are more confident score better. I could be totally wrong though.

Yes I agree, any generalization would require a multi-university survey

I mean I don't think you can say that the bias isn't an issue if you want to make any kind of generalized conclusion off that data. It's representative of your program maybe (and maybe a few similarly competitive programs) but it's kinda a stretch to suggest it's representative of all who start software engineering degrees.

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This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Who gets imposter syndrome from taking undergrad courses? Imposter syndrome comes from starting your first job and finding out how much you still don't know, or feeling like you'll never be able to contribute.

These things happen when I write in English while I am half asleep.

Cool chart, garbage headline:

"Women face greater Imposter Syndrome than Men, when starting Software Engineering Degrees, despite having similar high school averages"

they face imposter syndrome? Like this plague that comes down from the sky and befalls them?

They FEEL imposter syndrome.

Knowing that the school system is somewhat biased in favor of female students (higher avg GPAs with lower avg SAT scores), this chart looks spot on to me.

I bet if you replaced GPA with SAT score percentile you would see much less disparity between sexes, though you would still see a disparity, as women on average are higher in sensitivity to negative emotion (Neuroticism per Big 5 personality inventory), which is of course highly correlated with feeling self-conscious, imposter syndrome being a sub-type of feeling self-conscious.

Just as an aside, when I was in my doctoral program we presentations and round tables about imposter syndrome, I was like "lol what are you talking about, you know XYZ how are you not competent?" Well, turns out I am like <5th percentile in neuroticism.

Wtf! Mind-blowing!

You must work at the FAO. If you look at section VI of their methodology, they attempt to adjust for tourism: https://fenixservices.fao.org/faostat/static/documents/FBS/New%20FBS%20methodology.pdf

38th place at 2.1%

Good point, thanks

That would have been smart. Here it is if you are interested:

Romania 3.38%

Namibia 3.45%

Bulgaria 3.46%

Germany 3.47%

Poland 3.48%

Croatia 3.54%

Austria 3.73%

Gabon 3.75%

Ireland 4.33%

Czech Republic 5.49%

Thank you for the comment.

This was completed within the first week (during orientation week) before any proper curriculum was taught. There were many speeches and emails about "imposter syndrome" from faculty heads and professors though, as it seems to be a significant problem at my university every year.

The male:female ratio here was 3:2 so I would assume it is probably less likely for harassment to happen.

https://theconversation.com/beer-politics-and-identity-the-chequered-history-behind-namibian-brewing-success-155719

I had no idea but your comment prompted me to find that article.

I couldn't find much about Gabon, but here is an article if you are interested: http://enoromi.com/index.php/enquetes/societe-des-brasseries-du-gabon-entreprise-citoyen-et-leader-de-la-production-de-boissons-au-gabon

Australia is not on this list! I don't believe it.

The ratio was 3:2 male:female here

not statistically significantly different!!