For instance, I'm compiling an extensive bibliography of the existing empirical studies published that have attempted to verify the claimed benefits of TDD, and reviews and meta-analyses of these studies.
Is it available online?
Do you always answer a question with another question?
I'm planning to make it available on the Institut Agile group on Mendeley. It's intended to cover the entire set of agile practices; for instance, what's relevant to TDD consists of the tags "bdd", "tdd", "unittest" and "refactoring"
What is there right now is a subset only, though - I'm feeding the online set from a local BibDesk file which is still growing. (I'm also having some issues with the synchronization between the local file and Mendeley - there are some ...
A major psychology journal is planning to publish a study that claims to present strong evidence for precognition. Naturally, this immediately stirred up a firestorm. There are a lot of scientific-process and philosophy-of-science issues involved, including replicability, peer review, Bayesian statistics, and degrees of scrutiny. The Flying Spaghetti Monster makes a guest appearance.
Original New York Times article on the study here.
And the Times asked a number of academics (including Douglas Hofstadter) to comment on the controversy. The discussion is here.
I, for one, defy the data.