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This makes me wonder what the bounce rate for Stack Overflow questions is and what percent of visitors actually make it through the submission process.

• i336_ 9y ago
  This would actually be an answerable question, because of SO's draft mechanism. Opens new tab Sound of typing https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/296990/what-are-the-various-se-site-bounce-rates-where-researching-and-phrasing-a-ques https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/296990/what-are-the... I've been thinking along the same lines for a very long time. Thanks for the inspiration to finally ask!
  • tayo42 9y ago
    They've responded to questions like that before. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5y9l9n/showerthought_ive_never_actually_seen/deokxj0/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5y9l9n/showerthou...
    • i336_ 9y ago
      Ooooh, nice one. Thanks for the link!
  • taneq 9y ago
    That's awesome! If they have a big enough database of half-typed-then-abandoned questions, do you think it would be possible to train an RNN (or something) to read a post in progress and predict at what point the answer should be obvious to you?
    • wingerlang 9y ago
      Not the same, but while writing the title it suggest other posts.
      • taneq 9y ago
        I seem to recall something similar which does pattern matching comparing the code that you're typing with a database of code in accepted stackoverflow answers and gives "smart autocomplete". Not sure how I stand on the overall impact of such a thing but technically it was cool. :)
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