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Community countdown event for March for Science
I don't think this warrants a community event countdown. That feature is intended for Academia.SE chat events, not just events of interest.
I think a regular community ad is a much better way to ...
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Do the answers and opinions on Academia Stack Exchange reflect the opinion of whole academic community?
In other words, do the answers here necessarily reflect the accepted
answers to questions or problems of whole academic community?
No. There's no reason or evidence to believe that this community ...
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Do the answers and opinions on Academia Stack Exchange reflect the opinion of whole academic community?
First of all and just to clarify, the goal of this site is not to collect personal opinions, but facts and best approaches to certain problems.
Given the nature of our subject (academia), this is only ...
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Question hammered closed by community
See Bryan's answer here. In short: the vote by community user indicates that OP agreed their question was a duplicate. You can see this by mousing over "community" in the question's timeline....
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How do people here feel about chain-reaction downvoting of posts?
If you are one of the people that pushes such posts further into the ground, is it because you believe the question should be deleted
Honestly, I didn't realize I could vote to delete. But in any ...
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How do people here feel about chain-reaction downvoting of posts?
As a practical matter, people can vote using whatever criteria they see fit. We do have some guidelines for good voting practices, but votes are anonymous, and we don't usually know why people vote ...
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Do the answers and opinions on Academia Stack Exchange reflect the opinion of whole academic community?
All sub-samples contain bias unless inclusion is random - and inclusion to academia.stackexchange is anything but random. Certainly there is observer bias.
academia.stackexchange also contains ...
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Community countdown event for March for Science
Yes, we should.
It is somewhat political in nature, but it has been endorsed by major organisations, such as the AAAS (which publishes Science magazine) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and ...
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Pedagogy question challenge
I like your idea, what you've proposed seems like a good starting point to launch some discussion about the best way to address the sentiment portrayed in your proposal, and, overall, I think it would ...
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Community countdown event for March for Science
The main issue I have with this march is that I don't understand to whom the protest is addressed. Going through marchforscience.com, it seems to be mostly geared toward governments, especially the ...
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