> isn’t this the curse of most experimental research in programming techniques?
Of most experimental research with humans in general, for that matter. It's a big topic of controversy in psychology, because a lot of quantitative psych results are from synthetic tasks in lab settings, which leads to argument over the extent to which those are accurate proxies for real-world behavior.
Of most experimental research with humans in general, for that matter. It's a big topic of controversy in psychology, because a lot of quantitative psych results are from synthetic tasks in lab settings, which leads to argument over the extent to which those are accurate proxies for real-world behavior.