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We have a very large & widening gap between questions and answers. How do we fix it?
We need more answers, and therefore answer-writers
There's no escaping that more answers to on-topic questions are required to close the gap.
More active participation in closure queues is a ...
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Rich get richer phenomenon on CV
Let's look at the data. First up is a plot of acceptance rates versus the number of answers, with a weighted GAM smooth superimposed (courtesy ggplot2). It shows $...
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Why is math.SE more responsive than Cross Validated?
Math.se has more site traffic than Stats.SE.
https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#traffic
Math.SE has much more site traffic. Moderator @whuber notes that depending on the statistic, the ratio of ...
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How to make math/stats discussion friendly to blind people?
I'm not literally blind, but I'm legally blind, with corrected acuity on the order of 20/200. My condition could be more informatively described as "low vision". So I'm just as dependent on my vision ...
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We have a very large & widening gap between questions and answers. How do we fix it?
Downvote
Here is the mouseover text on the downvote button:
The question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful
I'd recommend we be more liberal with actually clicking on ...
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We have a very large & widening gap between questions and answers. How do we fix it?
We do not have a problem with unanswered questions. We have a problem with low quality questions.
See the below image from this sql script which gives for the monthly answers and questions the 10-log ...
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Statistics on Cross Validated usage
Some of the sources of information:
The "Users" tab, which stares at you every time you use StackExchange:
That should be on screen every time your read or post on the main site.
If you investigate ...
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How many questions are too many?
I'm not sure there is a 'too many' in a general sense. Let me make a couple suggestions:
Try to keep your threads consistent and manageable.
I think it's OK to put more than one question into the ...
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Is it true that the number of questions is growing while the number of answers can't keep up?
I've been watching this for a long time now. While both questions and answers are growing, there's a somewhat faster increase in questions than answers, and over a period of a couple of years it can ...
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We have a very large & widening gap between questions and answers. How do we fix it?
If a user asks an on-topic, answerable question, will that user get an answer?
Most likely yes (currently ~60% of all questions are answered).
The question graph is biased because the unanswered ...
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How many questions are too many?
You should generally ask questions separately unless they're very closely connected (in a way that it's natural to answer them together). Posting laundry-list questions will get your question closed.
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Is it time for an independent Statistics Q&A website? How can we be more independent? #STEXIT #WhoOwnsTheInternet
Solution: exact copy elsewhere
It is possible to have a virtually identical format, widely and productively used, under control of a non-SE entity that is invested in high-quality treatment of the ...
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Is it true that the number of questions is growing while the number of answers can't keep up?
In answer to Glen_b, I think the site management is outstanding. It seems however that the group of users who have questions but cannot answer any is much larger than the group of people who can ...
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Rich get richer phenomenon on CV
The question is asking about rich-get-richer at the level of users (high rep users getting undeserved attention as they get higher rep). I'll address that first, but I'll then discuss a slightly ...
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Rich get richer phenomenon on CV
One example where rich definitely do get richer causally (i.e. after controlling for quality), is questions, in particular newly posted questions.
The more upvotes a newly posted question gets, the ...
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Why do time series questions get such a low response rate?
It looks like I'm one of the more active users in the forecasting and time-series tags. Here is my subjective take.
I very much agree with Nick Cox' comment. Many, if not most of the questions ...
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We have a very large & widening gap between questions and answers. How do we fix it?
We need more answers, and therefore answer-writers There's no escaping
that more answers to on-topic questions are required to close the gap.
In my opinion this is the single most important point, ...
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Is it time for an independent Statistics Q&A website? How can we be more independent? #STEXIT #WhoOwnsTheInternet
Solution: create an independent WIKI portal
The Q&A format of StackExchange has generated a sort of yellow pages for all sort of problems with several advantages:
It generates content/information ...
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We have a very large & widening gap between questions and answers. How do we fix it?
I don't think the problem is solvable just by closing more questions or downvoting. I think all users start at a point where they just ask questions, then some of them become knowledgeable enough to ...
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Brainstorm: Should we collaborate with an alternative Q&A website? (and how?)
Here's a bump to this thread: Codidact now has a Math.Codidact site, with scope
General Q&A about all branches of theoretical and applied mathematics, including closely-adjacent sciences where ...
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How to make math/stats discussion friendly to blind people?
This is mostly an addendum to @Kodiologist's enlightening answer.
I suggest downloading and installing an app that simulates different types of color impairment, and then running your visualizations ...
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How to improve attention to interesting/advanced, but complex/difficult, questions?
I have been here for not quite long but I do have a taste of what HNQ does. So, count me in among the league of those users who feel exasperated when an HNQ bloats a mediocre question and it gets ...
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Are we seeing a dramatic drop in answers per question?
Lately I have used a lot of my spare time to answer questions on CV. I do get a little frustrated when my answers receive no attention at all, such as here, here, here and here. Now I'm happy to ...
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Are we seeing a dramatic drop in answers per question?
User @amoeba pointed out to me that data about stats.SE is queryable from a simple API.
One way to re-frame this question is "Are more questions asked in a month than are answered?"
This plot ...
SycoraxMod
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Brainstorm: Should we collaborate with an alternative Q&A website? (and how?)
Create a general landing page for statistics questions.
We could create a statistics landing page where all sites, for instance also datascience.SE, could join together in a single same spot. This is ...
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Are we seeing a dramatic drop in answers per question?
Ultimately, I think we need more people answering questions - many
times more. While more experts would be great, I think we actually
need more ... journeyman statisticians, and even in some cases
...
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Do questions and answers have different activity profiles during the day?
The following SEDE query shows that most activity is between 15:00 and 15:59 UTC.
Here is the graph:
Asking and answering follow the same trend but in the evening a bit more answers are posted.
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Unexpected reset of the daily login count (towards Enthusiast badge)
Probably not a bug, but I hope this answer can help you narrowing down your issue.
First of all, one needs to understand what is a 'day' in Stack Exchange and realize that badges like Enthusiast and ...
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Brainstorm: Should we collaborate with an alternative Q&A website? (and how?)
I am so glad @SextusEmpiricus asked this question, and I have been visiting both sites before this question was posted. That said:
Top Answers' Code of Conduct is "Be nice." which seems ripe for ...
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How do I find what percent of my points come from which tags?
Unless I'm reading your question wrong, amoeba's comment pretty much answers it:
Something like that? https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/22452/engrstudent?tab=tags
The only thing left there ...
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