one software engineer in Australia has shared an anonymous fragment of their life. the sample is small — read the numbers below as suggestive, not definitive.
asked whether they would trade lives with software engineers in Australia, 83 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly yes — slightly more strangers would trade in than not: 59% would trade, 28% would not, 13% are unsure.
compared with software engineers worldwide, software engineers in Australia are happier by 0.4 points on the 1–10 scale and less stressed by 0.9 points.
compared with everyone else in Australia, software engineers in Australia are happier by 1.1 points on the 1–10 scale, less stressed by 1.4 points, and more envied by 14 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.