Open source code with profanity in comments is statistically better
From the research paper:<p>> we calculate the swear factor as the number of swearwords divided by the lines of code<p>That's what I suspected. Assuming that most swear words will be contained in comments, what this is actually measuring is the ratio of comments to code. In other words, code that is more heavily commented is better.<p>I think we already knew this.<p>That said I would like to see a more critical analysis. First control for comment density. Then compare code quality to swearing in comments and also variable names.