Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
449
questions
0
votes
1answer
54 views
I am lost in critique of my question
So there is this question that I asked. In the first redaction, it was short and nice, and I liked it. Eventually people started to drop by and comment on how they do not like this or that aspect of ...
2
votes
1answer
38 views
Citation or Link needs to be mandatory
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 ...
3
votes
0answers
21 views
Want community promotion ads
Just like BioSe community, CogSci SE community should have community promotion ads. These are created by website users, is relevant to site, is interest-based, is engaging, is knowledgiable, and is ...
-1
votes
3answers
37 views
Found an interesting cogsci/neurosci question in some other SE branch? Link it here
There are other stack exchange websites which also contain cognitive science and neuroscience questions. This includes the Biology stack exchange, philosophy stack exchange, and some other sites. ...
0
votes
0answers
38 views
Predatory journals and low impact journals
Another page was discussing predatory journals and I thought it was a good segway for further discussion in this group. The discussion on pseudoscience seems to have become a standstill (I have been ...
4
votes
5answers
95 views
Strategies for increasing the engagement of the research community
From what I can observe, unlike the economics SE, cross-validated SE, Theoretical Computer Science SE a lot more questions on this site aren't research-level. Given the functionalities of this site I ...
4
votes
1answer
41 views
Limits on the length of an answer
Earlier today Viren Jain, a world-leading expert in automated connectome reconstruction, posted an answer that I upvoted. It was short but contained a link to a paper that was highly relevant. However,...
2
votes
1answer
76 views
Tackling the Pseudoscience white elephant
The main point of this post is to gain consensus about how to tackle pseudoscience or questionable practices in the future, ideally without decimating new users.
I ask this out of personal experience:...
1
vote
0answers
37 views
If restructuring question's body can set a new expectation on the readers, and thus making it clearer to be on-topic, should this be done?
In this example question: Cognitively, where does spiritual feeling come from?, the OP already states his expectation at the end:
I ask this question to understand how people like OSHO and ...
1
vote
1answer
54 views
What constitutes an opinion-based question?
For this question I am going to refer to Why are trans-women more common than trans-men?
I said it before in a comment on the question that this question should be closed for being opinion-based, and ...
4
votes
3answers
65 views
Are big-list questions inappropriate for this forum? [duplicate]
Before using the Psychology and Neuroscience stackexchange I was more familiar with the MathOverflow which is a more mature member of the stackexchange community. This platform is used by professional ...
14
votes
2answers
140 views
Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!
This site started private beta before July 2012, so it is no longer "beta", it is a full site by our definition. We've removed the word "beta" from your site banner because we believe that you aren't ...
3
votes
2answers
77 views
Are questions about cognitive aspect of spirituality on-topic?
If there is no god from where does spiritual feeling came from
This question asks (emphasis mine):
I can't differentiate if spiritual feeling is because of my childhood memory or is genetically ...
0
votes
0answers
25 views
Can one ask questions “inside” (rather than “about”) MBTI on this site?
There isn't an MBTI-specific Stack and this one is the closest (and has a MBTI tag) but most of the questions tagged as MBTI are about things like the validity of the system, is it practically useful ...
6
votes
3answers
57 views
What challenges stand in the way of moving out of beta?
I am relatively new to this SE site and I understand that it's still in beta so it can be closed. I also think this SE site should exist so we should do what's possible to move beyond beta.
What ...
2
votes
0answers
64 views
Are questions about preparing for a psychology degree on topic?
How to prepare when entering the field of Psychology from a professional UX background? is asking about how to best prepare for a UK conversion course in Psychology and has been closed. It has 3 ...
0
votes
1answer
38 views
Illegal substances make for an off topic question?
At what point did asking about particular drugs and the effect on the mind became off topic?
3
votes
1answer
30 views
are questions about neurodiversity/behavior issues acceptable here?
I was scrolling through area 51 looking for interesting communities i could help out and i came across a neurodiversity stack exchange in the defining stage and im wondering how it is different from ...
1
vote
0answers
30 views
Are question about logical arguments in cognitive therapy on-topic?
The question How to disprove a social anxiety fear? is closed because it is about the behavior of an individual. I agree with the individual part, but the question is also about logic. If you use ...
2
votes
0answers
24 views
Humorous remarks in Questions [duplicate]
Someone, (totally not me,) posted a question, peppered with a humorous remark.
Is it ok to be using humor in Questions, if it does not distract from the point of the question itself?
1
vote
1answer
57 views
Are humorous remarks in posts okay?
I have posted an answer to a question, that included a joke and serious information. The humor was clearly constrained to what i would call a short witty remark, clearly marked as humor by following ...
5
votes
2answers
64 views
Why are Psychology and Neuroscience lumped together as one stack exchange?
Can someone with the benefit of history explain please why the "Psychology & Neuroscience" is a single stack exchange site instead of two?
Psychology: the scientific study of the human mind and ...
4
votes
1answer
31 views
What to do with bad accepted answers
If you run this query it flags questions such as Where do our memories get stored and how are they retrieved again? where neither answer is good (-2 and -5 in vote scores) yet in this example, the -5 ...
4
votes
2answers
24 views
Is a professional path question on topic?
I wanted to ask a question about possible professional paths related to psychology taking into account my background as software developer, but would like to know if the question would be on topic, ...
5
votes
0answers
24 views
2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
2
votes
0answers
47 views
Any thoughts why my questions don't receive significant activity? Any recommendations?
It sometimes hard to predict which questions will receive a lot of attention or will be answered quickly, or not. Perhaps three out of eight questions with low activity is a statistical fluke. ...
2
votes
2answers
32 views
Should an answer be copy-pasted in duplicated questions?
Recently I left an answer about the tip of the tongue phenomenon (TOT), and it turns out that this kind of question has been asked at least in 1, 2, 3 and 4 other questions. Should I copy-paste my ...
2
votes
1answer
33 views
Are we slow on answering mods from other sites?
According to this meta question on Philosophy, it seems that we are slow on replying requests from mods of other sites. Is this correct?
4
votes
2answers
79 views
Emphasizing OP's lack of background when they ask unclear questions?
I don't think this question is unclear at all:
How can someone prove that he knows you more than yourself?
I know about personalities of some people, but I cannot prove it through valid ...
13
votes
0answers
77 views
Vote, vote, vote!
This is basically a re-hash that goes back to the early days of this site and in fact to the core of SE.
I wish to encourage the community to vote early, and vote often. The reason I am bringing this ...
2
votes
2answers
55 views
Stop closing questions that do not need the attention of a medical professional as 'self-help'
Every now and then, we close questions pertaining to a single individual as 'self-help' questions. This can be quite confusing to the OP if they do not need the attention of a medical profesional. For ...
1
vote
1answer
39 views
How to deal with human bias when suggesting changes on the StackExchange
Disclaimer: I'm not a native english speaker, so feel free to improve this question
Premise
People on this section are probably familiar with the difference between personal conviction and evidence ...
1
vote
1answer
145 views
Why is the question about schema change bad?
The question How are the schema, memory and knowledge changed after having an ill-structured problem solved? currently has 2 downvotes. I know this is not personal, and it's good to moderate the site, ...
2
votes
1answer
20 views
Should we close specific programming questions?
There are now and then questions like this one.
It's a clear and laser-like focused Q. All good. However, it's basically a die-hard computer programming question on a specific EEG toolbox in PsychoPy....
1
vote
2answers
26 views
Are question about identifying (potential) disorder based on behaviour on topic?
Are question about identifying potential mental disorder based on the description of behavior and internal feeling on topic here?
The reason for that post is the post on another SE: https://workplace....
3
votes
1answer
42 views
Is my question about free will and law on-topic?
Earlier I posted a question about free will. By the time I got around to checking my stackexchange account, my question had been migrated to Law SE, put on hold there, and now I can’t even comment.
...
1
vote
1answer
19 views
I left a question in the chat
I'm not fully aware regarding what type of questions are well-received in this site, and I could not provide a reliable source for my question (instead, I was looking for it).
So I added a question ...
2
votes
0answers
18 views
Should we give (close to the edit box) advice against asking personal diagnosis/treatment questions?
I don't have any stats, but my impression is that about half of the questions asked here by new users are "what's wrong with me?" closely followed by "suggest me a treatment".
We obviously have a ...
5
votes
0answers
44 views
Upvoting under-researched questions
In re Brain Waves and Psilocybin Mushroom where the entire question was:
Is there any research on brain waves when on Psilocybin Mushrooms or LSD ? Thanks
Currently at +4/-0 votes, I'm kinda ...
2
votes
2answers
19 views
Certain Statistics/Mathematics are on topic? [duplicate]
My question is regarding questions such as What's the best way to calculate an index score based on reaction time, variance and accuracy? and I just wanted to have what I consider a grey area ...
9
votes
3answers
211 views
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 ...
5
votes
1answer
106 views
Not all observations necessarily need a term in psychology
We get a lot of questions asked by layman users along the lines of:
I have observed X, (based on which I hypothesize this might be a recurring common pattern).
I don't know what to search for.
...
3
votes
0answers
94 views
Definition of Pseudoscience within Psychology & Neuroscience SE site
I have been giving this some thought since the discussion of Freud and pseudoscience came up and I have come to the conclusion myself that maybe a different approach needs to be made to what we are ...
2
votes
0answers
18 views
Very low quality accepted answers
How do we deal with very low quality answers such as https://psychology.stackexchange.com/a/20032 when it seems you cannot flag the answer as low quality. I assume I can't flag it because the answer ...
3
votes
0answers
35 views
Making a canonical question+answer pair for “is brain computer?”
@ArnonWeinberg is admirably trying to make a canonical question+answer pair for questions comparing the human brain to a computer. This question allows us to quickly close similar questions as ...
1
vote
1answer
46 views
How does one define ‘musical hook’?
I attempted to post a question regarding a musical hook but was told it was extremely ill defined so I am asking how I should define musical hook.
1
vote
1answer
19 views
How to determine resource (not reference) requests are on-topic?
Steven and I were recently flumoxed by the question "Different disciplines of psychology". It's different than other prior questions that can be reduced to "How do I learn about psychology/...
8
votes
3answers
2k views
Is Psychology Today a credible source?
Frequently I see Psychology Today popping up on this site. I had an interesting exchange over at Bio where Bryan Krause shared the following [comments since deleted]:
I believe that [Psychology ...
2
votes
1answer
27 views
Molecular Foundation of Evolution
I would like to get the permission to use the figure displayed in connection with the question: Why would the brain flip the images perceived by your eyes? for my upcoming article on the Molecular ...
4
votes
2answers
37 views
Should I replace layman terms in my question if more scientific terms were pointed out in an answer?
I'm specifically asking about this question, but general advice is as always welcomed.
As pointed out in Fizz answer, what I refer to as "external factor" is called in the field "confounders", and my ...
