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Say something about experience differences #446

Closed jssmith1 closed 6 years ago

jssmith1 commented 6 years ago

p. 2. col 2, 2.2.2 - you say you have novice and professional developers, but then don't say anything about the differences. Did you observe any differences based on experience? You don't bring this up until section 6, but still don't say anything about what you found out.

jssmith1 commented 6 years ago

Could be as simple as saying we don't analyze participants' performance based on their experience. Only measured it to give us a sense of the diversity of our participants.

jssmith1 commented 6 years ago

Identifying differences between students and professionals was not the aim of our study. Therefore, our analysis didn't differentiate between the two. We recruited from both populations to diversify the sample, and only report statistics about experience and job title to describe that diversity. We added the following line to the paper in hopes of clarifying these motivations: "We recruited both students and professionals to diversify the sample; our analysis does not otherwise discriminate between these two groups."