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Is it ok to post the same answer to two different versions of the same question?
I often see some comments to a question-1 that link to the answer to a different question-2 that also answers question-1.
Recently, I found a question-1 that already had an answer, but an answer of ...
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Is there a tag for "making a variable closer to normal"? (Edit: "Normal" as in "typical" or "desired")
In this question the user was interested in analyzing an intervention that attempted to get an [unnamed] measure to be between 70 and 80.
I think this is a fairly common problem; there are many ...
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Help me with my data questions
As I review more and more first questions, I'm seeing a decent number of questions where the poster has a dataset and has some vague ideas of what to do with it, but doesn't necessarily have a simple ...
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What to do as a first question reviewer without ability to close off-topic questions
I don’t yet have enough reputation points to close off topic questions but I see a good deal of programming and software related questions as I review first questions. As of now I leave a comment ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Deletion policy vs unbridled discretion
Are moderators (should they be) allowed the discretion to delete question as they wish; shouldn't stats.meta.stackexchange.com have a policy on deletions to avoid unaccountability?
I asked a question ...
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Question more apt to StackOverflow was migrated
I asked a question to StackOverflow but was migrated to CrossValidated.
The question is this one.
A user commented that the question is actually more adapt to StackOverflow and I agree with him.
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Scope of the main site and advice on asking questions
Where should questions about what's on topic on the main site and asking for advice on how to formulate the question (details are needed but I can't find what doesn't exist) be asked do they have a ...
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Accepted answer with bounty deleted
my question Does Independence Imply Conditional Independence in regression? which had a 50pts bounty earlier had an accepted answer with the bounty pointe assigned to the contributor. The answer was ...
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Is the "uncertainty" tag tantamount to epistemic/aleatoric and is their distinction actually philosophy?
Disclaimer: I haven't had a quality Bayesian training.
I understand how, for the frequentist, the "normal" error is a smoke-in-mirrors things, where randomness arises from lack of precise ...
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Question with 4 upvotes, answers, and granted bounty was deleted by a bot
I did a question in MSE that got migrated to CrossValidated, where the question got 4 upvotes, got a few interesting answers, and even I granted a bounty to one of them.
The question keep growing as I ...
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Are efficiency questions valid here?
I have asked the following question which was closed as being the duplicate and never reopened no matter how I tried to stress the difference between it and the quoted one: Adding new variable to a ...
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Advertising test to begin on December 3, 2024
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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Should we flag a question that links to a scanned copy of a book?
It happens from time to time that a question, an answer or a comment links to a (scanned) pdf of a book (or a paper, but book seems esp. problematic). I write a comment asking the author to fix their ...
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Would the question be better here?
I'm confident you could write a Question about this suitable for
Math.SE, but it would be expeditious to have a look at sister site
CrossValidated (stats.se). Tags should be a secondary concern.
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