Given that we have a technique taboo, it seems nobody really studied this question scientifically. I ask the question years ago on Skeptics.SE and it seems to be one of the highest upvoted questions on the side despite being essentially unanswered.
This might make for a good amateur science project. All you have to do is collect a bunch of programmers together and get them to answer a standardized set of tests and then measure their typing speed. Scatterplot the results. Admittedly it would measure correlation, not causation, but it’d be a start.
You could do even better by measuring the typing speed of an introductory computer science class and then compare it to the students’ grades at the end of the quarter.
Given that we have a technique taboo, it seems nobody really studied this question scientifically. I ask the question years ago on Skeptics.SE and it seems to be one of the highest upvoted questions on the side despite being essentially unanswered.
This might make for a good amateur science project. All you have to do is collect a bunch of programmers together and get them to answer a standardized set of tests and then measure their typing speed. Scatterplot the results. Admittedly it would measure correlation, not causation, but it’d be a start.
You could do even better by measuring the typing speed of an introductory computer science class and then compare it to the students’ grades at the end of the quarter.
If there’s a strong correlation that would be very valuable information for anybody that hires programmers.