Richard Bornat, one of the authors of The camel has two humps (about a supposed bimodal distribution of programming ability) recently wrote:
I did a number of very silly things whilst on the SSRI and some more in the immediate aftermath, amongst them writing "The camel has two humps". I'm fairly sure that I believed, at the time, that there were people who couldn't learn to program and that Dehnadi had proved it. Perhaps I wanted to believe it because it would explain why I'd so often failed to teach them.
Read the rest: Camels and humps: a retraction.
Did someone actually use an ad-hominem argument against themselves to destroy the credibility of their own paper?
Fascinating.
Will this start a new wave of "sorry, I was high when writing the paper, please don't take it seriously" retractions?
:D
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