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13 questions linked to/from Top $k$ List of Reasons to Close a Question Immediately
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Dealing with "do my professional work for me" questions?
There has been some discussion on CV Meta of how to deal with homework questions and also job-related questions. Either can be unreasonable in certain cases, but the latter really annoy me, since they ...
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How best to leave comments on questions and answers in the review queue?
I notice that regular Review Queue patrollers often leave a stock comment, particularly on "first posts" and "low quality posts". There are many issues that arise time and again, ...
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"Help I have some data and need to analyse it what do I dooo?"
I have been on this stackexchange long enough now to see there is quite a lot of questions along the lines of:
Help, I'm a data science intern/amateur statistician and I've been given a load of ...
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How to ask question that makes you famous and highly upvoted?
@whuber asked recently about Top Ten List of Reasons to Close a Question Immediately, i.e. how not to ask questions, but maybe let's address this from the opposite perspective: how to ask a "great" ...
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How to make math/stats discussion friendly to blind people?
I would like to understand how blind people read this forum and what should we do to make it more friendly to them. Is there a simple guide or write up on this subject?
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Does this question violate any of the community rules?
I'm new to Cross Validated SE. I've asked this question and got 2 down votes. So, I'm asking if it was an off-topic question or if there is a better way to ask it.
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Do we need a canonical thread about stock trading? What would it address?
I've noticed that stock trading is a prominent theme among reinforcement-learning and neural-networks and deep-learning questions. I think this is because (1) stock trading is an easy problem to ...
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Should the default tag synonyms be in the full form or abbreviated?
We have multiple synonyms for full-form names and their abbreviations like item-response-theory and irt, or stochastic-gradient-descent and sgd. What should be the basic form: full length or ...
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What is the meaning of the [sgd] tag?
The tag sgd has no usage information. I do not know what it is for, anybody knows, and can provide a wiki?
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Feedback on question: E-commerce - Does higher delivery time lead to lower sales?
I've recently asked a question E-commerce - Does higher delivery time lead to lower sales?. In this question I ask for help on finding appropriate statistical methods on a problem that I am facing. My ...
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Should I ask questions about interpreting printouts from a statistical package here or on SO?
There's a function from a statistical package whose printout I'm slightly confused about. Should I ask about it on SO or here? On the one hand, it doesn't have anything to do with coding/programming, ...
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Should we have a canonical question about coincidences?
Right now, this question is marked for closing as a duplicate of this one. Yet the titles and subjects are totally different at first glance - and someone searching for something similar will have ...
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How can we encourage askers to provide context?
When browsing unanswered questions, I very frequently find myself wanting to request the user who's asking a question to provide more context. Specifically, I often want to ask some form of "What are ...
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