Types of discussed Qs in RG.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_questions_we_discuss_the_most_Why_is_this_happening

Questions which a Researcher requires at all levels of intellectual clarification, at time it may even be a simple question bu that may revoke more responses that where hitherto unknown...Its is a REFLECTION BOARD for an insight into ideas, theories, practices and experiences of others...

Types of discussed Qs in RG.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_questions_we_discuss_the_most_Why_is_this_happening

Dear @Fatimah, @Raoof have mentioned the previous threads on this issue. My answers are there. Generally speaking, I was out of process of asking questions for two months because some of my questions were the subject of deletion! Be careful when You ask the question! I do not understand the RG policy, it should be clarified! Some of our friends, Lijo,Patrick lost their profiles because of Q&A!!! There is still a thread ongoing in feedback on deleted questions! You have took part in already!

https://feedback.researchgate.net/responses/why-my-question-is-not-accessible-to-my-friends

In RG there are an interdisciplinary group. A question which strictly refers to a specific subject, it is sure that will leave out a large number of RG-ers. There are disciplines that a majority of RG-ers can gave an opinion. for example organisation theory and management. Technical mathematical questions will leave out almost all.

General philosophical questions are good, since every body can have an opinion. For example the question: "Is mathematics a human contrivance or is it innate to nature?" continuo and I think will continuo for ever! The reason is obvious: Professional philosophers do not agree, so why should agree the RG-ers!

Good questions are, about climate change, economic crises, globalisation, etc.

Education questions are another category. Finally there are some unexpected questions: What do you see when you are looking at mirror? What time of the day are singing? etc. etc.

I think in order to give RG a nice dimension, The questions have to fall to class of questions that all should be interest.

Special technical questions are OK, if some one wants to ask a technical question to small group of experts.

I do not know if RG have some user guide for successful questions?

Dear friends, RG says that our questions must be scientific and related to research. So I honestly try to bear that in mind. It's not always clear because questions on social issues are a sociologist's research area; but it may be your general interest area. Questions on religion may be someone's research area, but it may be your general interest area, and to some people, it may be controversial area.

Dear all, I agree with the above answers. According to RG Q&A guideline, the question should be always related to research or which leads to a research...

I do agree with Miranda. Till now I don't know which is a good question. We all are taking lessons from each other every moment. Every question has its own importance and interpretation. Let' s be free to ask questions without fear.

I would like to mention a logical character, thus: all questions including such problematic words as: "all". "sole", "no", "none", "unique", and the like should not be accepted by RG. The reason is the answers are thereafter unnecessary., because they will be already logically biased. Hence triviality reigns in those cases.

I agree to all the above answers

In my opinion a good question is the one with a lot of dimensions to discuss by everyone.

Recently I came across a question in RG about prevention of childhood obesity - physical activity or dieting. Such a topic has multiple points and views, and liked to be discussed by every researcher or every parent as well. Such a question can be answered by many who is in the field or off the field. This can be considered a good question.

However questions may also be arised if we have a personal doubt, like if the theory says something and we see a not so alike situation. Subject oriented Experts can tell us better in such topics. This may also be a good question to some.

Good question depends on the one who is questioning and the one who is answering, who took it with interest

Dear Fatimah

My understanding is that the questions should be scientific and research oriented. If the question purely technical then the response is very little as either the concerned specialists are not active, or the topic is too narrow for any other people to respond. The way I approach is whatever I was thinking of developing questions is when I am planning to start some research topic. So I will identify the themes for the paper that I am planning and try to pose that as a research question to get good response from a variety of researchers. The main advantage is that you can get diverse opinions. It is for you to collate that information and bring out a cohesive viewpoint.

https://www.researchgate.net/topics.TopicGuidelines.html

Dear Fatimah, you have asked more than 1 Q here, actually you asked 3!

OK, I ask for what I need. Just like Prof N has said. I asked many Q's on motivation; that is one area that I'm researching, and I got many answers. Then I collect and filter...

I also ask for other things I need, for papers and links, and I found several helpful friends who provided these things. Yes, I will always remember them.

One more thing is that I always asked many Q's, since I was a kid. Because I never lost my curiosity, I still ask many questions on RG. I still have a few more Q's that I will ask next week, God willing...

An evolutionary diversity perspective:

Given that a question in RG represents a couple of words ordered in what people call a sentence, and given there are a couple of millions of participants in RG, what is the probability that two contributors ask exactly the same question just by chance alone? Is inspiration to ask general or specialized RG questions infinite? What will be the questions in 10 years from now? How will questions evolve in time?

Again many downvotes! @Fatimah did it with no intent! If she knew, she would not repeat the question, that is clear! Almost all answers got downvote for no reason! If there are a good reasons, please, point them out, I will upvote such responses!

Dear @Nicola Coleman, could You give us some suggestion in order to avoid redudancy and to have less problem of question asked! Your job in RG is scientific content. Thanks!

Indeed, why down-voting?

I also would like to see the arguments for down-votes. Perhaps any question should be allowed? Perhaps some people think there are no what some might call irrelevant questions? Perhaps the same question can be asked again in 10 years from now, when new people join, etc....

By the way, I think it is difficult to determine when new ideas for questions pup-up.

Can inspiration for questions be predicted in advance?

I agree with all of your answers. Dr. Yeoh, I asked 3 questions ;)

Prof. Ljubomir and all, I only realised the downvotes when you mentioned it. It makes me wonder.

Sometimes, I felt I'm out of questions. It really is inspiring to read your questions, my dear RG colleagues, which I do admit sometimes, I don't know what to answer. Does that mean I lack reading or as Dr. Yeoh mentioned, its just not my area?

I really appreciate all of your feedbacks dearest all ;). Hopefully this thread is not destined to be deleted.

I tend to ask about issues related to higher education administration this is my focus now. In addition, I have served at a public university in the USA for 16 years and I have been serving in a private university in Jordan for the past nine years. Whereas the curricula are very similar, policy is way different. This has motivated me to know more and to find out what are the practices in various countries. In addition, there are issues that come from the work itself as dean of students and vice president of academic affairs many policy issues come up.

My research questions I tend to make to my research partners. I have not posted any of them on RG but one of my co-authors have posted such questions.

I believe the RG provides us an opportunity to get opinions from peers that we rarely find in other places. Besides the possibility of crossing ideas of research and teaching, we also discuss issues of daily life with people from other parts of the world. This is fantastic!

Don't ask indirectly for us to do your homework for you or ask directly for us to debug all your spaghetti coding.

Don't ask questions that can be resolved by consulting Google Scholar, ERIC etc.

Don't chit-chat here about the weather etc. Use Facebook for that.

Be bold enough to give away your tentative research question to us. We won't steal it! Someone may be able to point you to somewhere the work has already been done!

Feel free to test the waters or ask for a quick, preliminary poll. Feel free to make a convenience sample of the opinions of some members of the research community.

If no-one replies then you know that either

1. You have asked a very deep and profound question OR

2. (More likely) You did not explain your question well enough.

If more researchers vote your question up than vote it down, it is 1. If more people vote your response up than vote it down, then you are on to something.

Also feel free to post your research sub-questions on ResearchGate.

If you have technical problems with research technique feel free to post a question.

Do expand on your headline question. Give some background of where you are coming from (Undergrad … Postdoc), and your current view. Ask one question per thread. Start a new thread if you have a different question to ask.

The purpose of discussion on ResearchGate is to act as a proxy for the staff room, where ideas are thrown about, and the best are kept and refined. Alliances and partnerships are made here by like-minded researchers. So this is your hidden agenda: to find international people to do interdisciplinary work with.

@Chalamalla: Thank you for reminding us not to cut and paste uncited text as replies to questions. 

I totally agree with Dr. Ian Kennedy because he express the "constitution" as Dr. Henk Smide commented. The new generation of researchers must learn the commitment and adherence to these important points.

Thank you all.

SM Najim

Dear Fatimah

As I know , you may ask in RG about any problem in your field or any information you need to know it, but the political here from many RG members to ask any thing and answer all things to get upvoted then getting  high RG, I hope you understand me and im sorry to all RG friends if one do not like my answer,

Regards

Dear Fatimah,

As there are a variety of cultures and attitudes in RG community, one should expect the same diversity in asked questions and answers. However, very sound scientific questions discussing an up to date problem or idea will be considered as a highly appreciated one and certainly gain more participations and upvotings. However, there is a minority of RG score hunters who ask very shallow and sometimes silly questions just to be recorded as a contribution and most of it is ignored by more serious participants. I, personally, asked very few questions because I relate it with my real needs for opinions or information about planned or ongoing projects but my answers are more often as it reflect my wider general interests.

Best regards

SM Najim 

Henk is right (previous page) when he notes that RG has no founding constitution. However, all members of RG are researchers. As such they have absorbed (or should quickly absorb) the inherent characteristics plus ethics (culture) of research.

This culture which they have inculcated, gets carried automatically and naturally to their behaviour on RG.

E.g., Don't waste facilities and resources. Don't waste people's time. Be honest. Be helpful. Be generous. Be polite, Be curious.

Using Technology to Teach the Art of Asking Questions!

"Technology is continually changing the world around us, including through the increasing automation of jobs and tasks we once thought required human capabilities. Machines are becoming ever better and faster at answering a variety of questions, and in many cases now vastly surpass human productivity. But one skill that remains inherently human? Asking important and interesting questions needed to solve the problems at hand..."

Dear @Henk, question is old almost 2,5 years!

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/using_technology_to_teach_the_art_of_asking_questions