Re: Languages don't matter. A mathematical refutation

["Jean François Martinez" <darkquark99@gmail.com>]

On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 4:02:25 PM UTC+2, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 02:46:51 -0700 (PDT), Jean François Martinez wrote:
> 
> > Now we have two samples of programmers  and in each sample there are white
> > balls (programmers who succeeded) and black balls (programmers who failed). 
> 
> We are moving in circles. I already explained what is wrong with the model
> of random selection of a team of programmers.
>

You have explained nothing about statistical tests and still don't understand them.  

We assume an hypothesis, pit the real observation against the theroretical model and accept or reject the hypothesis.  Period.  If we reject it we analyze the factors and try to find why population A has a higher proportion of people producing a working program, have a microwave oven or why people living 
in Miami are more likely to have visited Disneyland than people living in Melbourne

In our case we could think that since the  course was an elective one,  "write first and think later" or "clever trick" programmers  flocked to the course during the C years and deserted it
during the Ada years.   One of such programmers in a group working on a complex 
project like this could wreak havoc.  This is definitely not random and would have to be investigated along with the hypothesis that the Ada programmers were initially similar but the contact with Ada not only the language but also the litterature (compare the Barnes books agaisnt the compendium of clver trickjs that is the K&R C book) turned them into serious, comment loving, cheap trick adverting, software engineer types.