Questions tagged [scope]
The scope of the main site: what questions are on-topic and what is off-topic
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What's "Too basic" or "General reference" for this site?
One of the major downfalls of some Stack Exchange sites is a lack of quality, expert level questions. I have seen sites fail because the questions were all essentially "too basic" or "general ...
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Refining scope and new site name
This is part of the second step into an attempted reboot of this community: Rebooting Cognitive Sciences: a Suggested Approach
This site is now several years in beta, and it is about time we revisit ...
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Are questions about neurobiology on or off topic?
Is asking questions about biology without relating them to cognitive science considered on topic?
Perhaps there is an overlap with Biology?
Example questions:
https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/...
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How can we can encourage questions to show proof of initial research?
I think that better questions show some at least rudimentary level of initial research.
This might just be:
"I've read the first hit of a Google search, and I received conflicting answers."
"I did ...
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We should be more welcoming to technical Neuroscience questions
Context: A recent neuroscience proposal got shot down as a duplicate of Cognitive Science.
This proposal apparently was created by a group of experts:
This was a concerted effort across multiple ...
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Should we close questions about Freud?
Wikipedia has a list of topics considered pseudoscience that includes Psychoanalysis, Hypnotism, Myers-Briggs, and NLP (I would very much like to see Jung added to this list). Accordingly, I'd like ...
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Are questions about Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research on or off topic?
I was particularly interested in this site since I'm designing and evaluating a novel user interface for my thesis. During my design process I would like to back up design decisions with theory.
A ...
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How will branding affect the perceived inclusiveness of cognitive science and psychology?
Background:
This site arose out the merging of three area-51 proposals:
Cognitive science
Psychology
Psychology and psychiatry
From the initial beta period, the site clearly has many questions that ...
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Is Sociology on topic?
This question, while not a good question for other reasons, is really more of a Sociology question than psychology.
Is Sociology on topic here? It's been deemed a Cognitive Science by some ...
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What is our site NOT about?
Reading the The 7 Essential Meta Questions You'll notice Super User has laid out what items are on topic AND off topic on their site. Database Administrators has also done a superb job outlining ...
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What kind of site do we want to be?
We've been struggling internally the last couple weeks, I think Casebash puts it together well:
I actually think the decision to make this a research based site (like MathOverflow), as opposed to a ...
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Splitting up questions on neurobiology between cognitivesciences.se and biology.se?
I want to ask here, where you draw the line between cognitivesciences.se and biology.se, as there is some interdisciplinary overlap, when it comes to
Evolutionary Psychology
Ethology/Sociobiology
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What to do with questions related to statistical analysis of psychological variables?
We previously had a question which was deleted which was as follows:
Classification of RT?
Hope this is the right place for this question: I have an experiment
of two conditions & I have ...
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Are questions about coding psychology and cognitive science experiments, simulations, etc. on topic?
I just wanted to check what the general rules were about asking questions about writing and debugging code related to psychology and cognitive science experiments.
The kinds of things that I'm ...
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Do we need a self-help question policy?
I remember this being discussed before, but cannot remember where to find a specific policy if we have one. Do we want some sort of formal stance on self-help questions?
It seems that we are ...
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Autism Area 51 Proposal
We have discussed merging proposals into CogSci before, such as the Neuroinformatics proposal, but with not much success. As I was browsing Area 51 I noticed the Autism proposal. Many of their sample ...
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Are questions on applied fields of psychology allowed?
There are a large number of applied fields of psychology.
E.g.,
Industrial / Organisational Psychology
Educational Psychology
Health Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Neuropsychology
Forensic Psychology
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Is social psychology on-topic?
I had a question about the Milgram Experiment which is a cornerstone of social psychology. I did a search and was surprised to find no previous questions on the topic. Hence, my question.
Is social ...
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Neurobiology Rivalries, part IV, A New Hope?
This is a follow on for these 3 questions:
The neuroscience and neurobiology tags
Are questions about neurobiology on or off topic?
Splitting up questions on neurobiology between cognitivesciences.se ...
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Our FAQ endorses self-help questions
Not all users neglect the FAQ, and those that don't can still be mislead by it since unfortunately we inherit the generic SO template as Knight correctly pointed out in a comment to a question of his ...
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To what extent should we allow questions asking for research about a general subject?
As Seth Rogers posted as a reply to another discussion:
I would hate to see a bunch of "has there ever been a study about x
influencing y" questions- which is already happening. A quick search
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What should we list in the "Ask about..." / "Don't ask about..." section of /about?
The moderators can edit the content of the two boxes under the Get answers to practical, detailed questions section of our /about page.
I just added some text to indicate that self help questions and ...
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What to do with questions asking for terms?
Finally I think I understand the frustration of looking for a theory based on observations and be closed as self-help.
I know questions listing symptoms, ultimately, are for self-help, but still they ...
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Are questions about animals on topic?
When I saw What are the effects of implanting electrodes into the brains of monkeys? that raised the question, are questions about animal cognitive science / the function of animal brains on topic?
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Are "tool request" questions acceptable? Should we have guidelines for them?
Most of our software questions are recommendation questions asking for software that can perform a certain task. I'm generally against these, and they're generally against the SE philosophy of what's "...
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How to deal with questions like this one on "insanity"?
With regards to this question on "insanity", initially, I was inclined to vote to close because:
it used terminology that implied a lack of understanding of the medical and scientific knowledge about ...
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Can questions like "Is this hypothesis correct" be answered objectively?
After reading this question which asked:
Could this hypothesis of why we procrastinate be right?
I am very interested in procrastination, because it is such a clear sign of lack of motivation. ...
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Repeated, specific questions on comp neurosci software
There's been a rash of very specific questions about how to use the interface for a computational neuroscience software program. I know we have discussed this to a certain extent here, but I am ...
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Are events from the newspapers with a hint of CogSci on-topic?
Just now, I saw the following post on [skeptics.se]:
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/q/35904
The question regards an accident in aerospace, which may be linked to a lack of sleep. This is a human-...
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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 ...
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Tag for "Human Factors" and related issues
We've currently got the human-factors tag which has been used with varying degrees of appropriety. I do think Human Factors and or Ergonomics are on topic here, but due to the scope I'm not sure "...
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Are questions about the publication process in psychology and cognitive science permitted?
I recently asked what I believe is the first question on the site about the publication process rather than about substantive knowledge in psychology and cognitive science.
What are the major changes ...
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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 ...
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Are specific brain facts about specific people considered on topic?
I saw this question come up today and I don't know if this is the kind of question we want to encourage here. It's motivation is trivia, rather than learning or knowledge sharing. Is there be a policy ...
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Can I ask here about ghost?
Sorry I cant chat here yet.
Is this the rite site to ask about ghost.
I see and feel bad ghost. Are they real? How do I deal with that?
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