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> the most useful and helpful is job ads

That would certainly be the case, if it were not for the fact that [fake job postings][1] are a thing.

[1]: https://globalnews.ca/news/10636759/fake-job-postings-warnin...

Is there a reason to believe this would skew results?

i.e. Are you assuming (insinuating) jobs for some programming languages are more likely to be fake

I would assume so. I expect there to be a lot of job postings looking for more "sexy" technologies to create the visage that those companies are growing and planning towards the future. And conversely I wouldn't expect any job postings of old "streets behind" technologies like COBOL to be fake, as they wouldn't help with such signalling.

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