70% of the questions related to statistics? I do not think so! If you read questions assigned to you and you have statistics/data analysis in your profile, then statistics-questions are those that will be presented to you.
Is it meaningful to ask statistics related questions? Yes, I see many getting good answers and comments to their statistics related questions.
I think it is because of the nature of the statistics. The statistics, itself, contains a lot of ambigution and it rarely provides coherence (Silberzahn, Raphael, and Eric L. Uhlmann. "Many hands make tight work." Nature 526.7572 (2015): 189.) . This situation makes it a need that the Essentials of statistics like histogram (Mehmet Guven Gunver ,Mustafa Sukru Senocak, Eray Yurtseven, "PERCENTILE BASED HISTOGRAM BIN WIDTH", J. Ponte - Mar 2017 - Volume 73 - Issue 3, doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2017.3.10) or arithmetic mean / standard deviation (Mehmet Guven Gunver ,Mustafa Sukru Senocak, Suphi Vehid, "TO DETERMINE SKEWNESS, MEAN AND DEVIATION WITH A NEW APPROACH ON CONTINUOUS DATA", J. Ponte - Feb 2017 - Volume 73 - Issue 2, doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2017.2.34 ) can still be discussed and, moreover, they need to be improved. As statistics remains to be ambiguous and incoherent, more and more questions will be about statistics. I also attach the papers I mentioned in this reply
Article Crowdsourced research: Many hands make tight work
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70% of the questions related to statistics? I do not think so! If you read questions assigned to you and you have statistics/data analysis in your profile, then statistics-questions are those that will be presented to you.
Is it meaningful to ask statistics related questions? Yes, I see many getting good answers and comments to their statistics related questions.
The opportunity to pose questions to an international community of experts on ResearchGate has been invaluable to me, providing access to recent trends and studies in areas that I am working in, plus feedback for the ideas put forth and stimulating discussions. The learning experience has been superior to that I experienced as a graduate student in institutional contexts. Some of the conections made here have resulted in collaborations leading to collective publications and the organization of congresses, beyond the realm of virtual communication on the web.
The researcher is a man of doubts rather than of certainties. For those has doubt the best thing to do is ask questions. Here or elsewhere it is of little importance.
Thanks Guven Mehmet Gunver for your time. I cannot promise I will read all material you posted, but your comment is interesting.
Kenneth Carling probably you are right, I use to read some controversial and interesting debates about "which statistical approach fits better according to the variables.. and so on". This is my main interest on researchgate (Stats and study design). Maybe not 70%, but are you ok with the majority of them (51%) ?
David Charles Wright-Carr I confirm I'm using sometime researchgate to get some pdf and to make the first contact with people that I never meet before. Can we say that it is a great social network for teachers and researchers? We share news, updates and material....
Yes, Antonino, it is certainly very useful, and is transforming the way we work and share information. My present project, on embodied cognition and aesthetics, would not have been possible without this network, or at least I would have progressed far more slowly.
Even if there are many questions about statistics, the answers are more about the science. When you have a clear question and a clear experimental design, the statistics is easy. When it is muddled up, it appears to be the domain you understand less well. Then the blame is on the statistics.
I find asking questions here rather useful, and some got me really thinking. My2ct Peter
"Any time, any where question may be asked, may arise in mind and may be written" Yep! But as Galilelo stated in 1600 not all questions are the same and have the same weight...
What I mean is in proactive vision where one facing rapid changes, then endogenous brain processes need to predict ahead instantaneously using competitive means ...