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Belief & Evidence in Empirical Software Engineering
"... ABSTRACT Empirical software engineering has produced a steady stream of evidence-based results concerning the factors that affect important outcomes such as cost, quality, and interval. However, programmers often also have strongly-held a priori opinions about these issues. These opinions are impor ..."
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ABSTRACT Empirical software engineering has produced a steady stream of evidence-based results concerning the factors that affect important outcomes such as cost, quality, and interval. However, programmers often also have strongly-held a priori opinions about these issues. These opinions
Independent Opinions? On the Causal Foundations of Belief Formation and Jury Theorems
"... It is often claimed that opinions are more likely to be correct if they are held independently by many individuals. But what does it mean to hold independent opinions? To clarify this condition, we distinguish four notions of probabilistic opinion independence. Which notion applies depends on enviro ..."
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on environmental factors such as commonly perceived evidence. More formally, it depends on the causal network that determines how people interact and form their opinions. In a general theorem, we identify conditions on this network that guarantee the four notions of opinion independence. Our results have
Identity, Morals and Taboos: Beliefs as Assets
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
, 2011
"... We develop a theory of moral behavior, individual and collective, based on a general model of identity in which people care about “who they are ” and infer their own values from past choices. The model sheds light on many empirical puzzles inconsistent with earlier approaches. Identity investments r ..."
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was endeavouring to form some opinion.” Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, p. 151–152. I.
Bringing Research Evidence into Software Industry Practice A Study on Evidence-based Practice in the Software Industrial Setting
"... Abstract — Research findings can influence decisions at many levels, but only if one knows how to translate them into actionable and practical information. One of the major concerns of empirical software engineering research is in making a real impact on software engineering practice, bridging the g ..."
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. Keywords – belief; technical folklore; organizational culture; team practices; evidence-based and empirical software engineering. I.
Collective Beliefs on Responsible Investment
"... Abstract The financial community does not seem to have shifted to greater sustainability, despite increasing awareness and concerns around social and environmental issues. This article provides insights to help understand why. Building on responsible investment (RI) data from the U.K. financial pre ..."
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the content of collective beliefs and how they influence financial markets, but do not give much insight into how these conventions were formed or how they evolved. However, The concept of collective belief is part of a theory, convention theory, which was developed by a group of economists and sociologists
Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.4 [Software Engineering]: Software/Program Verification--Model Checking General Terms Verification
"... ABSTRACT There is a widely held belief that whole program analysis is intractable for large complex software systems, and there can be little doubt that this is true for program analyses based on model checking. Model checking selected program components that comprise a cohesive unit, however, can b ..."
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ABSTRACT There is a widely held belief that whole program analysis is intractable for large complex software systems, and there can be little doubt that this is true for program analyses based on model checking. Model checking selected program components that comprise a cohesive unit, however, can
Why and How to Substantiate the Good of our Reverse Engineering Tools? ∗
"... Researchers and practitioners are usually eager to develop, test and experiment with new ideas and techniques to analyze software systems and/or to present results of such analyzes, for instance new kind of visualizations or analysis tools. However, often these novel and certainly promising ideas ar ..."
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are never properly and seriously empirically evaluated. Instead their inventors just resort to anecdotal evidence to substantiate their beliefs and claims that their ideas and the realizations thereof are actually useful in theory and practice. The chief reason why proper validation is often neglected
OPINION PIECE: Challenging the notion of face validity
, 2002
"... Dennis Roberts offered some arguments in favor of face validity in the October 2000 issue of this publication. In the spirit of a balanced discussion, I will present some counter-arguments and suggest why face validity may be an inappropriate concept. First, face validity is a contradictory term. Ma ..."
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as a rigorous discipline, face validity has little place because it is both atheoretical and imprecise. Face validity basically amounts to what Buck (2001) refers to as "faith validity "- the belief that a test is okay without empirical evidence. Empirical evidence is a sin qua non of testing
Bragesjö M. Credibility clusters, preferences, and helpfulness beliefs for specific forms of psychotherapy. Psychol Psychother
"... Credibility clusters, preferences, and helpfulness beliefs 2 Background: There is some evidence that the perceived credibility of specific forms of psychotherapy, beliefs about helpful and not-so-helpful interventions, and differential treatment preferences may influence both therapeutic alliance a ..."
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Credibility clusters, preferences, and helpfulness beliefs 2 Background: There is some evidence that the perceived credibility of specific forms of psychotherapy, beliefs about helpful and not-so-helpful interventions, and differential treatment preferences may influence both therapeutic alliance
Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange",
, 2004
"... Abstract How much do cultural biases affect economic exchange? We try to answer this question by using the relative trust European citizens have for citizens of other countries. First, we document that this trust is affected not only by objective characteristics of the country being trusted, but al ..."
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and the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago. We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France. Duke of Wellington The Webster dictionary defines culture as "the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
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