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> In Python, however, "string" and "list" far outweigh "dictionary" and "object", which probably says something about what kind of data structures Python developers deal with the most in their lives.

This statement is not true at all. There are plenty of developers that don't post questions to or answer questions on StackOverlow.

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Not saying anything about the parent comment, but the method of studying a large population by using a sample size is pretty common and time tested.

Yes, but SO participation is self selecting (self-selection bias), and is not a random sample of the larger union of non-SO and SO population.

And the 'statistics' on the data was presented as a word cloud, which is not a time-tested way to understand statistical relationships.

> but the method of studying a large population by using a sample size is pretty common and time tested.

Yep, and so is abusing it and making the wrong conclusions. It's equally as likely that dictionaries require far fewer questions than strings either because their methods are more intuitive or the questions most people come up with have easily searchable existing answers.

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