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Maybe someone should follow up and do a similar study for multiple fields and see whether the difference in error rate between fields is statistically significa
by ArchD 15y ago
Maybe someone should follow up and do a similar study for multiple fields and see whether the difference in error rate between fields is statistically significant.
- barik 15y agoThere is some literature in other fields. Sjoberg, in "A Survey of Controlled Experiments in Software Engineering" did similar studies in software engineering to compare with other fields such as medicine and the social sciences. This survey showed that only 1.9% of Software Engineering studies were actually controlled experiments. They examined 5453 scientific articles in 12 leading journals from 1993 to 2002. I like how the authors tactfully state that "the gathered data reflects the relevance of software engineering experiments to industrial practice and the scientific maturity of software engineering research."