Making wide statements like "loved", "dreaded", or even "wanted" based on a couple of checkboxes that aren't labeled as such are just assumptions that can't be supported.

If I had taken this survey, I would have marked ElasticSearch as "Worked With" and not "Want to Work With". That doesn't mean I hate it. It just means I'm ambivalent about it. I needed it for work for one project, but I don't see myself using it again any time soon.

If Python had been on the survey, I'd have left both checks unmarked and I absolutely hate that language. I tried to learn it a couple of years ago and the tutorial thought it would be a good idea to use a bug as an example of how the white space is such a "great thing" and that you need "steely eyed missile man" sight in order to work with it. So me not marking the checks means I won't use it, not dread it, which is contrary to current the assumptions made.

If C#, Java, HTML, or a dozen other languages I use on a regular basis would have showed up on the list, I would have checked both boxes. They wouldn't show that I love the languages, though, just that I find them useful. It wouldn't even show that I'm making a career using the languages. Some of them, yes, I use professionally, but some I (also) use for personal projects and have done so for over a decade.

And if Angular, Vue, Bootstrap, or half a dozen other languages/frameworks were on the list, I'd have marked them as "Want to Work With", but that doesn't mean it'll happen. Because there's less of an assumption here, "Wanted" is the most accurate assumption, but it's still not a very good one. I want to learn these languages because many jobs require them, not because I really want to learn them for myself. I could just as easily "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" which one to learn first (or at all) and it wouldn't make a difference to me. So the assumption that it's my personal preference of "Wanted" still makes that label inaccurate.

Each and every person has their own list of languages they hate, use, on-the-fence, like, love, and are ambivalent/meh about. I just used some of my own examples to show how wrong this survey's assumptions are, and I didn't even fill it out.

If you really wanted to learn the details of "Loved, Dreaded, and Wanted", you should just straight out ask those questions, as MisterMiyagi and other commenters said or implied. And if you wanted to know if it was personal or business/career preference, you should specifically ask that, too. Making assumptions based on company policy/biases are part of the reason why Stack Exchange has had so many problems in the past 2-3 years.

Making wide statements like "loved", "dreaded", or even "wanted" based on a couple of checkboxes that aren't labeled as such are just assumptions that can't be supported.

If I had taken this survey, I would have marked ElasticSearch as "Worked With" and not "Want to Work With". That doesn't mean I hate it. It just means I'm ambivalent about it. I needed it for work for one project, but I don't see myself using it again any time soon.

If Python had been on the survey, I'd have left both checks unmarked and I absolutely hate that language. I tried to learn it a couple of years ago and the tutorial thought it would be a good idea to use a bug as an example of how the white space is such a "great thing" and that you need "steely eyed missile man" sight in order to work with it. So me not marking the checks means I won't use it, not dread it, which is contrary to current the assumptions made.

If C#, Java, HTML, or a dozen other languages I use on a regular basis would have shown up on the list, I would have checked both boxes. They wouldn't show that I love the languages, though, just that I find them useful. It wouldn't even show that I'm making a career using the languages. Some of them, yes, I use professionally, but some I (also) use for personal projects and have done so for over a decade.

And if Angular, Vue, Bootstrap, or half a dozen other languages/frameworks were on the list, I'd have marked them as "Want to Work With", but that doesn't mean it'll happen. Because there's less of an assumption here, "Wanted" is the most accurate assumption, but it's still not a very good one. I want to learn those because many jobs require them, not because I really want to learn them for myself. I could just as easily "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" which one to learn first (or at all), and it wouldn't make a difference to me. So the assumption that it's my personal preference of "Wanted" still makes that label inaccurate.

Each and every person has their own list of languages they hate, use, on-the-fence, like, love, and are ambivalent/meh about. I just used some of my own examples to show how wrong this survey's assumptions are, and I didn't even fill it out.

If you really wanted to learn the details of "Loved, Dreaded, and Wanted", you should just straight out ask those questions, as MisterMiyagi and other commenters said or implied. And if you wanted to know if it was personal or business/career preference, you should specifically ask that, too. Making assumptions based on company policy/biases is part of the reason why Stack Exchange has had so many problems in the past 2-3 years.