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It irritates me to no end that the original study is so much better known than the utter failure to replicate. I have to suspect that this has something to do with how conveniently it fits many programmers' notion that programmers are a special sort of person, possessed of some power beyond merely a lot of practice at programming and related skills.
I think that interesting results which fail to replicate are almost always better-known than the failure to replicate. I think it's a fundamental problem of science, rather than a special weakness of programmers.