I am currently facing a situation that I am not sure how to handle. Basically, there is this problem $A$. Problem $A$ has been a hot topic in the past $5$ years. Last year, a paper was published in a very reputable journal (IEEE Transactions on Information Theory) that proposed a new algorithm ...

I'm wondering what is the similarity percentage of answers and opinions, which are given in academia stackexchange to users, to the opinion of academic community as a bigger entity? In another word, is necessarily the answers here reflects the accepted answers to questions or problems of whole ac...