What Dan Luu thinks about metascience

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Programmer who has worked on hardware verification at Centaur, on infrastructure at Microsoft and Google, and latterly at Wave. He writes long, data-heavy posts at danluu.com that test the software industry's folk wisdom against whatever evidence can actually be found.

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2 dated positions, 2014, in their own words. Our reading of what Dan Luu has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 7 Nov 2014

   Our readingThe most-cited study showing that language design affects software quality rests on misclassified repositories.

   TypeScriptdesignsoftware quality

   Their wordsSo the intermediate result appears to not be that TypeScript is reliable, but that projects mis-identified as TypeScript are reliable.

   ↗Literature review on the benefits of static typesdanluu.com 2nd of 5 in this piece

3. 7 Nov 2014

   Our readingThe answer to weak studies of programming practice is to fund better ones, not to conclude that the question cannot be measured.

   Their wordsIt's true that controlled studies only tell you something about a very limited set of circumstances, but the fix to that isn't to dismiss them, but to fund more studies.

   ↗Literature review on the benefits of static typesdanluu.com 4th of 5 in this piece