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I don't think GitHub mining is state of the art, and there are opportunities, as the article says, to separate the signal from the noise. I agree in the general
by cdheuer 7y ago
I don't think GitHub mining is state of the art, and there are opportunities, as the article says, to separate the signal from the noise. I agree in the general sense, but there should be some lines drawn at which point we can say research is invalid so people don't run away with the results.
- SiempreViernes 7y agoYeah, the original study is clearly so methodological unsound that it's conclusions shouldn't be repeated. But fankly most of the posts here are people almost calling the original authors heretical for even trying to data mine commit messages.