Krzysztof Kowalczyk wrote:
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:06:14 +0100, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Not surprisingly, the first time I heard of this "scientific evidence" was on a page on the server of the Free Software Foundation, and in general you hardly ever hear of it outside of free-software or open-source communities.
Which is most likely due to your limited exposure.
[etc. Additional polemics snipped.]
Your emotional response shows, in my mind, two things:
* You are subject to the same sort of wishful thinking. You are so convinced of the validity of the supposed result that you will not hesitate to resort to personal attacks to defend it.
* You didn't really understand what I was trying to say. (I might not have been clear enough, in which case I apologise, but personally it seems more likely to me that you just overreacted because you read my message as a challenge to the scientific result.)
To make this absolutely clear: I am not challenging the validity of any of the researchers' work. Nor am I suggesting that the study was in any way flawed or that any important factors had been overlooked or ignored.
What I *am* saying is that people in general are over-interpreting the result. I don't think any of the researchers involved in the study seriously think that they have dug up rock-solid evidence that proves, as a hard fact, that people will definitely produce less-quality work for money. It's the sort of people who would just *love* for that to be true who tend to put more interpretation into the results than the people who produced them.
Timwi