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May 4, 2017 267 replies Error Margin: + 6%
About Face
Q1. It was reported Wednesday that an engineer at Facebook had gathered data over the past 5 years that showed computer code written by female programmers at the company was rejected 35% more frequently than code written by men. What was the main reason for the higher rejection rates for women's code?
overall
custom
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+

I don't trust the data/report so this question is moot

9%
12%
7%
14%
7%
7%
5%
8%
11%
9%

Women were held to a higher standard

22%
14%
29%
9%
18%
38%
21%
21%
23%
22%

Women wrote inferior code

10%
17%
4%
13%
12%
4%
16%
9%
9%
10%

Men are the more senior programmers at the firm so it's to be expected

14%
14%
13%
8%
19%
14%
10%
11%
16%
14%

Variation was likely random, doesn't signal anything

12%
16%
8%
13%
16%
8%
19%
16%
8%
12%

Other

9%
7%
12%
8%
7%
14%
11%
10%
8%
9%

Don't know

18%
15%
21%
22%
19%
14%
17%
18%
18%
18%

Don't care

5%
6%
5%
13%
2%
2%
0%
6%
6%
5%
Q2. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently made appearances in swing states in what some perceive to be a laying of groundwork for a presidential run. Your thoughts? (Check all that apply)
overall
custom
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+

Zuckerberg will run for president within 12 years

22%
16%
28%
20%
24%
22%
13%
23%
24%
22%

Zuckerberg will run for president sometime after the next 12 years

12%
10%
13%
10%
11%
14%
24%
7%
12%
12%

Zuckerberg will never run for president

25%
35%
15%
23%
23%
29%
35%
23%
24%
25%

I could see myself voting for Zuckerberg at some point

14%
12%
16%
1%
15%
27%
14%
16%
12%
14%

I could not ever see myself ever voting for Zuckerberg

48%
56%
41%
61%
47%
37%
52%
47%
48%
48%

If he runs Zuckerberg might win

23%
20%
25%
17%
28%
24%
34%
25%
18%
23%

If he runs Zuckerberg could never win

15%
25%
7%
24%
12%
11%
23%
19%
11%
15%

None of these

12%
9%
14%
9%
13%
12%
10%
9%
14%
12%
Q3. Nearly 2 billion people checked their Facebook account in the most recent month, up from 1.6bb a year ago. There are 7.5bb people in the world, 3.7bb with internet access. How many monthly active users will Facebook have a year from now?
overall
custom
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+

Less than 1.5bb

4%
3%
4%
4%
5%
1%
4%
3%
4%
4%

1.75bb

7%
7%
7%
4%
5%
12%
26%
5%
4%
7%

2bb

12%
12%
12%
16%
14%
5%
5%
10%
15%
12%

2.25bb

25%
23%
26%
10%
28%
35%
23%
27%
24%
25%

2.5bb

11%
13%
10%
14%
8%
13%
12%
10%
12%
11%

2.75bb

2%
1%
2%
3%
2%
1%
0%
2%
2%
2%

3bb

6%
5%
6%
1%
9%
7%
4%
3%
8%
6%

More than 3bb

5%
5%
5%
7%
6%
2%
2%
4%
6%
5%

Don't know

9%
6%
12%
3%
11%
12%
18%
8%
7%
9%

Don't care

20%
25%
16%
36%
13%
12%
7%
28%
19%
20%
(Only) 1% said they would never vote for a Jewish person for president which was tied for the lowest 'disqualification rate' among religions. By comparison 2% said the would never vote for a Catholic, 11% said Mormon, 37% said Muslim, and 55% said Scientologist.

(However) 12% said neither Jew nor Muslim would ever be president and 6% said a Muslim would be president before a Jew.

In March we asked which stock people would most like to own for the next 10 years from among 7 well known companies. Apple, Alphabet (fka Google) and Tesla were far and away the leaders with about 26% each. Next came JPMorgan Chase, Mastercard and Neflix with about 5% each. Facebook was last with 2%. (5% said they don't want to own any of them, would prefer to have cash)
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