Linked Questions
12 questions linked to/from "Flag" and "Recommend Deletion" options for answers that are merely unscientific opinions
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Cognitive Sciences 2012-2016: Community Review
This is a first step into an attempted reboot of this community: Rebooting Cognitive Sciences: a Suggested Approach
As messy as meta is, through an organized community effort I'm hoping to collect ...
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What level of citing references or sources should be required for answers?
The Cognitive Sciences site is going to be slightly different from many of the other Stack Exchange sites. Unlike Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, etc. our questions do not indicate a problem ...
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Do you want to become a moderator?
One of our moderators has become inactive for quite some time. In addition, soon I will spend less time on this site as I will prioritize a side project of mine. Therefore, we can easily arrange for ...
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What to do with answers that fall short of our standards of evidence?
I've received a flag for the following answer:
My own personal experience: I learned about "sending energy" in
massage school, and experimented with sending it to people I knew,
just to see ...
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Refining our target audience / Question expertise
This is part of the second step into an attempted reboot of this community: Rebooting Cognitive Sciences: a Suggested Approach
Since the very beginning of this site, there have been differing ...
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What are reliable sources?
While there is an expected level of intial research required for questions, and there is advice on how to write and research a good scientific answer, there are a lot of posts with no sign of initial ...
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Citation or Link needs to be mandatory in questions
I am going to argue that a citation or link needs to be mandatory for every question, otherwise the question should be closed. I recognise that this a perennial question and proposition that has been ...
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Are we to accept only Wikipedia links in answers?
This question comes on the back of answers https://psychology.stackexchange.com/a/28001/7604 and https://psychology.stackexchange.com/a/28000/7604 where the answer only has links to Wikipedia articles....
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Answers that are personal experience: discouraged? How?
I know we discourage questions that are primarily personal experience, but what about answers? I see them pretty frequently (like the bottom answer here), and to my mind they rarely contribute to the ...
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How to improve new Context-close vote proposal?
I really like the ideas behind Robin's answer to this question, but I feel like it could use a bit of polish. Since it's kind of unwieldy to continue discussing that post in the comments, I've created ...
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Should sources be mandatory in answers?
Answers based on anecdotes or personal opinion can already be flagged for removal.
However, in previous discussions (eg, here, here, here, here), scenarios were posited in which answers without ...
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Feedback of "not an answer but a comment" flag
Sometimes, quite a few bad answers are given to questions which, luckily, get flagged and removed. However, the feedback we give is not always that clear.
The feedback we give us as follows:
This ...
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