@StevenJeuris and @BenBrocka, I agree. I posted easy questions only because, well, these are some of the only questions I can think of given my last psych course was 12 years ago, haha. Also, I wanted to try and fulfill my commitment during the private beta. But I've posted enough questions for now; I'm going to focus on edits, meta and chat
I've got an hypothesis about meta SE sites which just came to mind while reading some answers. I'm pretty sure it's a psychological phenomenon. Once people pick sides in a discussion, they have a very high tendency to stop approaching the discussion from the other angle, how it could work. I feel a much better discussion format would be two columns, pro and con, counteracting the 'you say something, and I disagree' pattern.
It doesn't make sense that you are 'entirely' against a proposal, but somehow once people decide in general how they feel about it, it's like they stop thinking rationally.
Perhaps a 'two columns' discussion design would eliminate that. Unfortunately I can't ask on main as this is probably way too basic. :)
Scytale's assessment, from the science fiction novel "Dune Messiah" (1969)
When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death
rather than change into his opposite.
While reading some discussions on Meta Stack Overflow, it dawned on me that it might not be the best format t...
@MattЭллен Chat is pretty advanced, I believe I still don't know all the features. It's a pity it isn't used more often. It actually has something to offer over traditional chat rooms. Wouldn't 'ate pig' make more sense btw? :)
Oh, well I'd be lying if I said I'm a noob! You should see how much time I've wasted over at EL&U chat. Yeah chat is a great place for the community to come and figure things out.
@StevenJeuris Yeah, ate pig is a more logical way to put it :D
@MattЭллен It has proved very useful so far. It would be worthwhile if we can get some more professionals on here and on meta, especially during the private beta.
@MattЭллен I can't assess this professionally as it isn't my area of expertise, but judging from some of the given answers on the site, it looks like we're definitely off with a good start. Meta is pretty active as well, and it seems like there are plenty of people interested in creating quality content.
I asked this question a long while ago, but I never got an answer to whether mental exhaustion can be measured. If mental exhaustion could be measured, it would mean that I would have a way of knowing the performance I can get out of my brain in a day. I would be able to know what is best for ref...
but we do need a FAQ, and I think that one may be asked frequently enough / we may need to refer to is frequently enough that it will be useful to have.
Also, how to close will change as the site matures and we get migration paths, so I thought a topic on the current state would be useful
But, I'm just doing what I think would be helpful -- constructive criticism welcomed! If others think I'd unnecessarily duplicating content please tell me!
I asked this question a long while ago, but I never got an answer to whether mental exhaustion can be measured. If mental exhaustion could be measured, it would mean that I would have a way of knowing the performance I can get out of my brain in a day. I would be able to know what is best for ref...
Personally, I would label this as a badly phrased question, so I left a comment redirecting to the relevant 'initial research' meta post.
Actually to me it seems, if he would have written less, it would have been a better question. It's the disorganized assumptions without links that make it seem low quality.
@StevenJeuris Thanks! Just responded to your MSO question with a more detailed explanation of my reasoning. I will gladly remove my faq-proposed question if the community feels I should!
@StevenJeuris re-reading that question, one moment...
I see what you mean...
it does ramble all over the place a bit
I've starred it; I'm not quite sure how it can be improved right now, I'll check back on it later and see if I have any ideas...
also will be interested to hear how he responds in the comments
I've seen a fair few studies over the while that suggest caffeine increases arousal in the short term and that for some tasks, this will also increase performance (there's a few citations here).
However, as with most drugs, habituation leads to withdrawal effects and adjustment, so that in some ...
Sharing data is an important part of science (e.g., see APA discussion). It's also often useful to be able to have access to datasets when teaching students how to analyse data in the cognitive sciences.
What online data repositories for research are available in the cognitive sciences (e.g., p...
This is very well phrased. We could still use a consensus on poll like questions at this point! :) But this definitely is what I had in mind with a good one.
This is mostly a cautionary tale, but "seeding" this site with questions simply to add to its bulk sounds helpful, but in all likely hood, it is actively harming this site. I wrote about this extensively in
Asking the First Questions
…but a few key points are most poignant.
I was a ...
I've gone and voted to close all negatively voted questions in the unanswered questions list, please add your vote if you agree any questions should be closed. You can view the low-voted questions here: cogsci.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/…
@BenBrocka Well, that I find is a better approach! Since most of the problem questions are from one user, can't we just contact him and ask him to delete the ones he is least interested in for the time being?
Closing them as "not a real question" seems plain wrong to me. People would get confused about what is on topic.
Depends, the ones I voted to close weren't very good questions either
It would probably be most constructive and easiest to ask @InquilineKea to delete some of his downvoted/0 vote questions since closing questions is very difficult at this point
Scytale's assessment, from the science fiction novel "Dune Messiah" (1969)
When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death
rather than change into his opposite.
While reading some discussions on Meta Stack Overflow, it dawned on me that it might not be the best format t...
Sometimes questions get posted to the site which are off-topic or outside the scope of this site. What is the best way to deal with such questions?
This is mostly a cautionary tale, but "seeding" this site with questions simply to add to its bulk sounds helpful, but in all likely hood, it is actively harming this site. I wrote about this extensively in
Asking the First Questions
…but a few key points are most poignant.
I was a ...
The Axon Terminal
The Axon Terminal