Most academic software engineering “research” I’ve seen is pretty useless, especially these kinds of human factors studies. Questionnaires and interviews are us

Most academic software engineering “research” I’ve seen is pretty useless, especially these kinds of human factors studies. Questionnaires and interviews are usually too underpowered or specific to be statistically significant, and their terms are defined vaguely enough to draw any conclusions the authors want. Occasionally there is some interesting demographic information, but most of the papers I’ve read are usually glorified position papers under the guise of an empirical study.