> there exist anti-patterns that can provide significant explanatory power to the probability > of post-release defects. > Therefore, development teams sh

> there exist anti-patterns that can provide significant explanatory power to the probability > of post-release defects. > Therefore, development teams should consider allocating > more resources to improving their exception handling practices While an interesting correlation. The conclusion that plugging this particular hole might not be the best goal to focus on improving. It's two variables that are not statistically independent of each other. A novice developer is more likely to write bugs as they are to use anti-patterns of exception handling, or anti-patterns for anything else for that matter. Basically correlation is not causation.