Agreed, research “showing” 10x developer productivity differences is flawed or non-existent. “No proof” does not mean it’s not true, though.
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@stilkov Whatever happened to "if it can't be measured, it doesn't exist"? It's on us to come up with that proof, or discard the theory.
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@xaibeha @stilkov So is psychology, yet we manage somehow to create pretty definitive experiments.
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Replying to @tedneward
@tedneward @xaibeha Experiments in psychology are often very small, yet meaningful. In SW development, this seems more like economics

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Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov @xaibeha Maybe… or maybe we need to think about small, meaningful experiments.