Poll: Are We Engineers?

4 points by 1970-01-01 ↗ HN
Spun off from "Are We Really Engineers?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29998868

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No we're not engineers because we find it OK when the poll results get displayed before you even vote. Engineers would study a problem including user experience and user expectations, hence only tell results after the poll has finished or at least until after the user has voted (in low-stake polls like this one).

Yes we are engineers because we find it OK when the poll results get displayed before you even vote—shows how little we know and care about the rest of the world.