Ummm... you do realize that the slides point out scientific studies of programming with interesting, practical results, yes? And that the author of the slides

Ummm... you do realize that the slides point out scientific studies of programming with interesting, practical results, yes? And that the author of the slides is a professor of computer science doing more such studies? One of his points in the talk was to call for the professional programmers in the audience to participate in these sorts of studies.