Nik Clayton said on Jan 18, 2001 at 09:26:24:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 06:26:15AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Actually, I view the whole thing as a useful applied sociology
> > experiment, from which much useful information derived.  If I
> > had the academic credentials as a social scientist to be seriously
> > published in the field, or wasn't busy with other things to the
> > point of being unable to waste time acquiring them, I'd write
> > several papers on the topic.  
> 
> That didn't prevent ESR from trying. . .

Besides, physicists have been known to publish papers in serious
sociology journals, so why not programmers?  
See 
   http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/#papers 
(for those who haven't heard of this: it's worth the visit)

R.