On: Open source code with profanity in comments is statistically better

[Brian_K_White]

The observation of the association is already valid since it doesn't try to say anything that no one can say.

Saying "control for comment density" presumes one knows how to even do that or how to even define it.

How do you decide that a given line of code or comment should weigh more or less than another?

If a codebase has both a lot of swear words and a lot of all other words, so what?