Comment by TJSomething
11 years ago
How about "A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github" by Baishakhi, et al. [1]? That shows a weak correlation between fewer bugs and static typing. There's a stronger correlation between strong typing and fewer bugs.
I am familiar with that study and while I have serious issues with the methodology, I do not think it says what you think it does[1].
[1] If you think it refutes my point, that is.