Cat Hicks@grimalkina@mastodon.social
@saraislet@infosec.exchange @mhoye@mastodon.social I understand why you're frustrated with the state of the conversation and evidence. I am too, and I agree that the "productivity" investigations are super lacking. Really, I engage with qualitative interview studies of this sort as interesting artifacts and mostly read the quotes while leaving the researcher frames as you know, their frame, which I like more in some cases than others. In this particular case I thought it was an interesting contrast to the assumed unanimous...
Cat Hicks@grimalkina@mastodon.social
@saraislet@infosec.exchange @mhoye@mastodon.social ...stance from the CEO quotes, when even similar qualitative work with a sample of very similar people surfaces a lot of conflicting opinions! I read these qual studies less as statements of ground truth and more as investigations into perceptions.
On the learning environments piece though, I do think this can be pretty lacking for a lot of devs and that paying attention to it is helpful. It's a stated value but I think cultures that truly incorporate it are rarer in tech.
