Dataset: Differences between Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Software Engineers: Analyzing the 2022 Stack Overflow Survey

# Analysis and Figure Generation Scripts for the Paper "Differences between Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Software Engineers: Analyzing the 2022 Stack Overflow Survey"

This repository contains the necessary R scripts and session data to re-run all tests reported in the paper, as well as generate the figures we use (and a few others we did not use).

## Files- SO_analysis_EASE25.R: The main R script executing all other parts. Running this script will calculate and the p-values of all tests, sorted by condition (lines 10 to 602). These are the same as reported in the paper in Tables 1 to 7. Additionally, figures will be generated (lines 603 onwards).- SO_data_filtered_sampled.RData: A RData file containing the filtered and sampled data and functions necessary to run the tests/generate the figures.- 01_SO_preprocessing.R and 02_SO_random_sampling.R: Scripts containing filtering logic and sampling logic. If those files are executed within SO_analysis_EASE25.R instead of loading the RData file (lines 5 to 8), the filtering and sampling is re-run. Note that this results in different random samples, and therefore different results than our paper. Also, the effect size calculations then have to be adjusted to the results that are significant (lines 596 to 601).- generatedGraphs.zip: The graph files generated by the main R script.- paperFigures.zip: The graphs we used in the paper. These are the generated graphs, but edited for readability.

## LicenseThe Public 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL): http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/).We hereby would like to attribute Stack Overflow as the source of these results. All data we make available (i.e., the RData file) is a derivative work, and as such also shared under the under the ODbl.