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But you're not just measuring the quality of software products in isolation. The whole point is to measure how a certain set of conditions, particularly the cho

But you're not just measuring the quality of software products in isolation. The whole point is to measure how a certain set of conditions, particularly the choice of an artifically constructed language that humans use, among other things, to communicate with each other, affects the result of a human enterprise that's typically performed socially. For these kinds of research questions, human social behavior is not a distraction from the issue being studied. It's the very locus of the issue being studied.

yogthos 7y ago
First, we need to established whether there is something that needs to be studied or not. The idea is to look for the outliers by exemaning a large volume of projects in many different languages. If you see a correlation between a language and a result then you can mke a hypothesis that the language is a factor. At that point you can make a further hypothesis as to whether certain languages encourage a particular kind of social behavior, or whether particular kinds of people are drawn to particular languages. And of course it could just be the technical features of the language that end up playing a role because social aspect may be consistent across languages.