Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s...
by codemonkey-zeta on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @02:53PM
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Of course I understand why the research has N=48, my question is whether it is adequate to fully support the claim in the title. I really don't know. I'm not a scientist or sociologist. My intuition tells me that it seems small, and using a population of college students intuitively feels like it wouldn't adequately capture the diversity of professional software developers, but maybe it does in this case.
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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s...
by tsumnia on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:14PM
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It is; however, my next understanding is this is why we are seeing a rise in meta-analysis papers. It is difficult to acquire a sufficient N with a single study. As a result, you see authors consolidating all of the papers within a topic and discussing the trends seen in each.
However, research also has issues with reproducibility. No one will publish work that was simply a repeat of someone else work. Researchers have to twist or add something. It is a discussed issue, but no one in power has made attempts to rectify it.