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Yesterday's discussion on the paper itself is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17753614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17753614 I've got a mor
by bunderbunder 8y ago
Yesterday's discussion on the paper itself is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17753614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17753614
I've got a more detailed comment on that page, but, in a nutshell, I don't think one can reasonably extrapolate these results to a business setting.
I'll go a step further here and say that I see this Science Daily article as a great example of questionable science journalism. Critical details left unmentioned, wild extrapolations, all that fun stuff.
- quotemstr 8y agoI've soured on these sorts of behavioral study generally. They're so rife with statistical problems and publication bias that I think they pretty much amount to throwing darts at the truth, and as a result, whatever opinion you happen to hold about the right way to do $X, you can find a "study" to back you up. For or against pair programming? For or against open offices? For or against Agile? Oh boy, the literature has a study for you! (Or, if you're into nutrition, you can find studies for and against keto! Or for and against eggs! :Eyeroll:) This kind of nonsense is what I like to call anti-knowledge. It tangles our decision making and it'd be better if it didn't exist at all.
- mannykannot 8y agoWhile this experiment is too narrow to extrapolate to a business setting, I find it useful to have time to myself to think independently about whatever are the issues of the day. This is particularly difficult to achieve in an environment of constant verbal contact. Of course, this is just a 1st. person anecdotal claim, so it certainly does not extrapolate anywhere.