[blub]

One of the authors commented below that the “teams” were actually persons and the Rust person was an intern.

This is even less serious than the typical pattern of grabbing random students for experiments and then drawing conclusions about the general population.

[torginus]

Not sure about your life experiences, but every new, from-scratch project I have undertaken has looked like 1-2 or at most 3-4 people on good terms who really pulled their weight, with the rest being basically not dead weight, but the management overhead they caused ate up most of the productivity they brought to the table.

[blub]

Even if that were the case, working in a team is very different from working solo.