Lindsay, >> I hope you are not making the mistake commonly made in academia that >> 3rd year undergraduate == expert programmer > >I hope you are not making the mistake commonly made in industry in >assuming that academics don't realise that 3rd year students aren't >experts but that they are all they can get because industry is so >suspicioos of academia that they wont help out?
Ok, its industries fault that academics don't know what they are doing (at least on this issue). I have found that people in industry are very receptive to being subjects in experiments. I ran a simple experiment at the ACCU conference and had 45 subjects (out of 250 people attending). Somebody even suggested I could visit his company to run the experiment on his developers (about 15 of them as I recall). I see the problem as one of making the contacts between industry and academia. Academics have little idea how to talk to industry and I'm sure academics feel the same way about people in industry. derek -- Derek M Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Applications Standards Conformance Testing http://www.knosof.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
