On TIOBE Index - and the era of decision fatigue | /en/2019/06/tiobe-index/

Guest *Shrek, Tan* @ 2019-06-30 15:24:02 originally posted:

Unfortunately the ranking is the one of the only few things that we can rely on, when there’s lack of information, I believe. It’s just too difficult if not impossible to check by yourself in many cases. But it could be better if the rankings are made in more responsible, objective and careful ways...

@shrektan

Guest *Jiena Gu* @ 2019-07-01 02:39:27 originally posted:

Indeed, sometimes using ranking can hide the most valuable information. Also, even under one standard/ variable, ranking might not be the best way to differentiate candidates, we should consider the disparity between each rank. For example, No.1 is with 99% and No.2 is with 98.99%, followed by No. 3 which is only 23% (just making up an example). In such situation, instead of focusing ranking, the percentage (true value) would be more useful to reflect the true distribution...

@jienagu