Re: [python-uk] Future Dojo idea ... randomised trials

2012-02-07 Thread Carl Reynolds
I'm happy to provide informal advise on trial design Power calculations are the starting point for proper RCTs... Michael Grazebrook 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 dow

Re: [python-uk] Future Dojo idea ... randomised trials

2012-02-07 Thread Michael Grazebrook
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 pape

Re: [python-uk] Future Dojo idea ... randomised trials

2012-02-07 Thread Nicholas H.Tollervey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan, This sounds like the most awesomested idea for a dojo evar. :-) And yes, I agree with you in your original post that a vacuum is a bad thing. Like anything worth doing I suppose it's a balancing act so people don't feel coerced into methodo

[python-uk] Future Dojo idea ... randomised trials

2012-02-07 Thread Jonathan Hartley
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-proje