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It would be interesting to see empirical data on William Edwards's hypotheses, e.g. "Questions are getting fewer and fewer quality answers. Moderators and 'clo
by emw 14y ago
It would be interesting to see empirical data on William Edwards's hypotheses, e.g. "Questions are getting fewer and fewer quality answers. Moderators and 'close this' clickers are getting increasingly narrow." An analysis like this might be feasible with Stack Exchange's API: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs https://api.stackexchange.com/docs.
- NickLarsen 14y agoOr you could use the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/queries http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/queries
- pestaa 14y agoBut the first question is obvious: how do you measure quality? Votes are primarily for popularity, not quality.
- nathan_long 14y agoOne way would be "mean time to an accepted answer."