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I've just read through the McConnell post and the comment stream, and your comment that "McConnell confirms Bossavit's claims about every citation" baffles me :
by igouy 14y ago
I've just read through the McConnell post and the comment stream, and your comment that "McConnell confirms Bossavit's claims about every citation" baffles me :-)
"Curtis 1986. ... Bossavit says the paper “offers no support for the ‘10x’ claim.” But the first paragraph in section II.A. of the paper (p. 1093) summarizes 4 studies with the overall gist of the studies being that there are very large differences in productivity among programmers. The specific numbers cited are 28:1 and 23:1 differences."
I don't see how that can be described as McConnell confirming Bossavit's claims?
- jqjester 14y agoAgain, McConnell isn't disagreeing with Bossavit's claims about the Curtis 1986 citation. He concurs! "I never stated that Curtis 1986 was an 'empirical study.' Curtis 1986 is a broad paper that touches on, among other things, differences in programmer productivity. " The difference is that McConnell thinks that summarizing four studies "offers support for the 10x claim" and Bossavit does not. That's a matter of analysis & evidentiary standards.