HN Parents Have An Average Of 1.7 "Little Startups" (Infographic)

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Comparing against the fertility rate is completely meaningless. The fertility rate includes all the people who have zero children; and it also counts the children people have over their entire lifetime.

Agreed.

I'd even go a step further and say the number itself is meaningless. What's the sample size? The stand. dev.? But most importantly, the sampling method sucks.

The sample size is low. As I mentioned in the blog post, it was admittedly a crude method of getting data.

But it was a fun exercise for me to create this. Hope some people get value out of it.

I'm getting a steady stream of HN parents sending in their surveys so we'll see if we can get a better sampling size. Send yours in if you can spare a moment away from your 1.7 kids! :D

The sample size is the least of your problems. A huge but biased sample is pretty useless, and as araneae says, your sampling method sucks.

All very good points. Thank-you all for your feedback.

If you're a HN parent please fill out the survey so I can get some better data :) https://animikii.wufoo.com/forms/hacker-news-little-startups...

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