> Quotes like this always make me nervous about trusting a book, because these sorts of studies tend to be pretty difficult to replicate, or have very small eff

> Quotes like this always make me nervous about trusting a book, because these sorts of studies tend to be pretty difficult to replicate, or have very small effect sizes, or just be examples of poor research. That is precisely the main reason I got rid of my copy of Steve McConnell's "Code Complete".