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GeorgeDaGreat123 OP t1_j1qdtzd wrote

Reply to comment by roundhousemb in [OC] Women face greater Imposter Syndrome than Men, when starting Software Engineering Degrees, despite having similar high school averages by GeorgeDaGreat123

The fact that there were only students with high school averages in the 90s is because the software engineering program at my university is incredibly competitive.

At a 93% average, you have a 5% probability of admission.

The mean, median, and mode of all high school averages of those admiited into the program was between 97 and 98%. This statistic includes everyone as it was released by university admissions themself.

Since the surveyed mean above is also in the range of 97-98%, and 80% of people responded, I don't think that type of bias should be an issue.

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roundhousemb t1_j1qini1 wrote

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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GeorgeDaGreat123 OP t1_j1qivia wrote

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

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phdoofus t1_j1qp55r wrote

>The fact that there were only
students with high school averages in the 90s is because the software
engineering program at my university is incredibly competitive.

Hello sampling bias

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