I'm happy to provide informal advise on trial design Power calculations are the starting point for proper RCTs...
Michael Grazebrook <mich...@grazebrook.com> wrote: >It would be amusing to do a randomised trial, well-designed, and submit >the results to some prestigious journal. > >Of course we'd probably be turned down. But then again, I bet there are >very few academic studies based on the use of hardened professionals >like us. > >Or even ... we could look for papers published by London academics in >this area, and work with them to design an experiment which would be >fun, informative, and have a realistic chance of being published. > >Is there an academic amongst us who can advise? > > >On Feb 7, 2012 15:59 "Jonathan Hartley" <tart...@tartley.com> wrote: > >> People are always banging on about how programming lacks scientific >> rigour when it comes to evaluating common practice. >> >> Is TDD *always* faster? >> <http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/01/11/Flipping-the-Bit.html> >> >> Is it *ever* faster? >> <http://www.davewsmith.com/blog/2009/proof-that-tdd-slows-projects-dow >> n> >> >> Who knows? Fortunately, we have the tools to answer the question once >> and for all. We, at the London Dojo, could run a randomised trial: >> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/30/run-your-own-scie >> ntific-trials> >> >> I'm curious what results we'd get if we randomly made some Dojo teams >> use TDD for the assignment, and others not. Our usual time contraints >> result in a mad scramble for the finish line. Would TDD make the task >> harder, or easier? Would the results be more functional, or less? >> >> Perhaps it doesn't make sense: A team assigned to do TDD might only >> have >> members who were not practiced in it. But I can't help but wonder what >> results it would produce. Is anyone else curious? >> >> Jonathan >> >_______________________________________________ >python-uk mailing list >python-uk@python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
