M-1: We add a Python author flag set to ‘Andrey Petrov’, lead author of Python’s most popular third-party library ‘urllib3‘ (Popularity defined by https://pypistats.org/top). Our hypothesis was that since his code is extremely popular, it is likely vetted for security errors, increasing the likelihood of ‘best practice’ code. Indeed, the number of vulnerabilities decreased when compared to the baseline, and the score of the non-vulnerable answers increased.
Not sure what a good context is within the content of the current landing page, but it's still quite funny: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9833571