[rbehrends]

> Very true. But any analysis that emphasizes writing code over maintaining it will systematically bias itself in favor of dynamic typing.

This is not what the studies do. There is no emphasis on anything. They look at how people do on a number of different tasks with different typing options and report the results.

Also, it's not just dynamic vs. static typing. Gradual and soft typing is also of interest, because it allows you to turn dynamically typed code into statically typed code without a complete rewrite.