<p>We need to establish that some of this work is human subjects work. The ethics, history, failings to learn from, and practice of applied research, of behavioral science, and of intervention science are all unbelievably ignored in favor of &quot;engineering expertise&quot; and ridiculous credibility contests. Yes, even in &quot;human-centered&quot; software spaces, rarely is care and effort taken to learn from social sci even when *people are talking about doing social science*!!</p>

<p>We need genuine data literacy. Too much time and energy is being trapped in arguing about the most obvious facts of bad methods, bad statistics, and bad measurement. We need to define problems of data missingness, and poor operationalizations. We need a strong, robust working model of developer problem-solving, which will give us a shared language for what is NOT being measured. We need something to move toward, not just flailing against.</p>

<p>What do we do differently with the measurement of software work? What do we do if we want to not become victims to whatever foolish analysis is able to game this &amp; use the right keywords or a scary N size to get VCs to amplify every message? </p><p>I have some thoughts and they were forged in the fires of working with students with significant missing data, of working with data on learning outcomes at scale, and of working in contexts where careful work gets screamed at and bullshit gets a promotion</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> absolutely useless-ass company</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> even broadcom&#39;s major big customers hate broadcom, as far as i know</p>

<p>honestly fuck ransomware crews but if they pop Broadcom and publish the internal contents of the knowledgebase you better fucking believe I&#39;m downloading that shit in a heartbeat, even if I have to buy more hard disks to store it. their search is so bad and since they own all of LSI&#39;s shit it&#39;s often the barrier between me and data loss. I hate them with the force of a thousand suns.</p>

<p>The inevitable outcome of a world built on prestige, brand name signaling, and bullshit.</p>

<p>I can&#39;t fucking believe that I got absolutely hammered by the dudebros of software on LI for simply talking about my expertise areas in measurement while being employed in tech (instead of being a faculty member I guess??) while some MBA student is able to what, just scrape through undefined activity data and proclaim to people their engineers should be fired??? What is this WORLD. We can&#39;t live like this.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> ok so do you know john mcmaster? he has a car</p>