This El Reg article, via Dave’s Rants, has the results of a survey into the musical tastes of IT professionals. Interestingly, MS Certified Professionals tend to like mainstream pop music and list acts like Dido and Britney as their favourites, whereas software developers prefer heavy metal and acts like Iron Maiden and Slipknot. Which probably explains why I’m not a software developer…
The closest match on the list to me is electronic music, which is mostly enjoyed by Linux users, apparently. incidentally, if that poll is accurate, my mother would be an IT director and my dad would be project manager, and most of my friends would be database administrators…
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July 22, 2004 at 10:24
Another kinda cool thing on this. Over on AudioScrobbler they are having a discussion on the data they could collect on musical preferences based on occupation etc..
July 22, 2004 at 12:17
Music Stereotypes
Via Neil Turner. The Reg has an intresting article on which musical stereotype IT people are. Naturally I don’t really…
July 22, 2004 at 20:03
The problem with this “study” is that it only used 200 students in one area. It’s difficult to apply that demographic to all IT folk.
I think it was on Slashdot earlier this week.
But still a funny story.
July 23, 2004 at 10:59
According to the site, I should be a CIO/IT director.