Timeline for When does a newbie become an expert?
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| Sep 15, 2016 at 17:56 | comment | added | Carl | Newbie feeling is probably related to a mixture of unfamiliarity with the site's features and statistical inexperience, which are positively correlated to certain degree and which feeling likely mitigates with experience gained in either or both types of uncertainty. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 17:50 | answer | added | Wayne | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 17:22 | comment | added | gung - Reinstate Monica | (Nb, I don't have a PhD in stats.) I'm still trying to clarify if you want to know when a person stops feeling like a "newbie" with respect to the site's features vs. statistical expertise. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 17:16 | comment | added | Carl | @gung In my life, I have noted that a feeling of "security" or alternatively "self-confidence" in one's abilities comes from accepting a personal challenge that seems daunting, and by following that challenge to a successful resolution. The more daunting the challenge, the greater the self-confidence we extract from the achievement. So, in context, the newbie who is not a statistician (e.g., me) would likely get more of a "kick" out of making an impression on this site than someone with a PhD in stats, for whom such things are of course, well, expected. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 16:53 | comment | added | gung - Reinstate Monica | My point was to clear up that the "car" (I suppose) is feeling comfortable with site usage / culture, not statistics / machine learning. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 16:40 | comment | added | Carl | @gung Well, I suppose it is a bit like asking "When do people stop feeling that the car they bought is new?" If you crash into a tree, that could happen rather quickly, and I suppose if one has survived having a few unpopular questions on this site it could have a similar effect. So, it goes to self-confidence in using the site, which implies not only the mechanics of site usage, but, for this site, some statistical prowess is implied as well. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 16:27 | comment | added | gung - Reinstate Monica | So are you just asking when someone tends to know the ins and outs of the site? | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 15:24 | answer | added | Carl | timeline score: -1 | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 15:01 | comment | added | Tim | @Carl this was an insider joke :) | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 14:58 | comment | added | Carl | @Tim Fair enough, but who gets to 20k on this site without knowing statistics, data analysis, higher mathematics and software? | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 14:49 | comment | added | Carl | @amoeba Newbies are mostly people with statistical dilemmas they want answers to, i.e., topics that do not usually come up at typical family dinners. So, yes, I am talking about the site experience, which has its own learning curve. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 14:43 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 15, 2016 at 12:16 | comment | added | amoeba | Are you asking about being a "newbie" on this forum or about being a "newbie" in statistics in general (in real life)? | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 11:40 | comment | added | Glen_b Mod | I'll let you know when it happens. I think we're all still learning. I don't think there's any particular milestone that counts as having become an expert. For every topic I feel I have something of a handle on there's a dozen more I'm still definitely a beginner at. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 11:21 | comment | added | Tim | After reaching 20k you can consider yourself as "trusted user" ;) More serious comment: I'm afraid that this site it not enough to learn about statistics and data analysis - you need to interact with real data to learn it. Moreover, it is good to be familiar with both academic and commercial data analytics since in both cases you approach problems a little bit differently. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 7:16 | history | asked | Carl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |