>I thought these tools are so great, so awesome, that even without much experience they will help you?

I never made that claim, I don't think it's generally true, but I do think it can be true for some people.

Regarding the study, I pointed out why I thought it was limited in its scope. If someone did a study on the potential productivity gains of using emacs and they based the study on people who had only used it for a week it wouldn't be a particularly useful study. A Piano is not a useful tool for making music for someone who has only used it for a week either.

I do have a customer with no prior programming experience that has created custom software for his own small manufacturing business automating tedious tasks. I think that's pretty amazing and so does he.