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Re:Storm 2.0 by lvh on Sunday June 02, 2019 @08:34AM (#20075074)
If we're going to talk about empirical effects, we first need to agree on what quality means. Parts of the thread, including your comment, lead me to believe we sometimes mean an abstract, desirable but ineffable property--but then we're not speaking empirically.

Do you mean "defect rate" or something else?

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Re:Storm 2.0 by pron on Sunday June 02, 2019 @08:43AM (#20075111)
I mean any reasonable metric you pick. The studies that have tried and failed to find a big effect used defect rate as a metric, but studies are not the only way to detect big effects. Because there are strong selective pressures in industry that can detect big effects, we can say that no big effect on the bottom line has been found.
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