It is also reasonable to believe CS
subareas (we call them “CS areas”
from here on) that deal mainly with
data (such as image processing) are
more likely to have greater productivity
than areas in which evaluation
procedures require users (such as
human-computer interaction), programmers
(such as software engineering),
and organizations (such as
management information systems).
Researcher productivity in these human-
and organization-based areas
is bounded by the difficulty of carrying
out the empirical evaluations the
fields require. Though these beliefs
are all reasonable, it is all they are, as
they are as yet unproved.