Personally our industry needs to mature a lot with respect to its ability to critically understand studies before they’re going to be useful. Thus far it seems like the headline version of the first article which purports to analyze a topic is taken as gospel with respect to the topic in question. People still trot out that old article that “finds” that statically typed languages don’t reduce bugs (i.e., 90s era OOP creates enough bugs to offset those precluded by type checkers). If we’re going to depend on formal studies for these hugely multivariate issues we need a lot more rigor before they are more helpful than mere “collective industry experience”.