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Some areas of science use double blind studies a lot, others don’t. I assume you won’t get mad if I don’t use a double blind study when investigating a black ho
by gbear605 3y ago
Some areas of science use double blind studies a lot, others don’t. I assume you won’t get mad if I don’t use a double blind study when investigating a black hole, right? We use different types of studies for different types of science.
Double blind studies work for areas where the experimental subject can’t tell the difference between the different courses - for example, whether a drug relieves pain. A double blind study for static/dynamic typing is definitionally impossible, since the experimental subject must know whether the language is static or dynamic, and they come into the experiment with biases about that.
Now, you could do something like a double blind study, where the participants are assigned to program in a language without knowing what they’re testing. I hope that those types of studies are done! But that’s a different thing.