Questions tagged [science]
The Science category includes proposals in subjects like the applied, natural, cognitive, formal, and social sciences.
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Don't allow votes as duplicates of closed proposals/beta sites
Proposal: Economics
I noticed that the economics proposal was marked as a duplicate of Economics (Update: no longer listed as a possible duplicate), which seems reasonable if you don't check the link,...
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Wanted: 45 more upvotes
Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
Just some statistics on our progress towards completing the Definition stage:
We now have the required 60 followers (yay!).
We have 31 out of ...
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What would the Postgrad Mathematics proposal provide over Mathematics?
Proposal: Postgrad Mathematics
While I can understand the frustration with the research level suggestion for MathOverflow and the more populist Mathematics stack exchange, it is difficult to see ...
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Pareto optimality of the distribution of upvotes
Proposal: Economics
We are economists, let's reallocate upvotes (the distribution of votes per question is not Pareto Optimal). We can achieve a better outcome at zero costs!!!
In questions with a ...
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Has this been promoted on Linguist List or other linguistics notice areas outside SE?
I understand a great deal of the commitment process is about getting dedicated users, and reaching out to external communities is less reliable in fulfilling that goal. But as I understand the scores,...
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Planned and Constructed languages are now on topic on the Linguistics SE
I'm one of the current moderators on the Linguistics site.
Our related Conlang proposal has been closed sometime ago and it has now been deleted. Considering this, and the lack of an appropriate ...
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Possible duplicate of The Great Outdoors
Proposal: Ornithology
This is the third or fourth proposal about birds now. As I've pretty much said to all of them, bird watching is already on topic in The Great Outdoors
Tags:
bird-watching(16 ...
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How can we attract some expert users here?
Proposal: Economics
I personally don't read/post on economics blogs at the moment, (it's one of those things I intend to do).
I think the scope of this blog is perfect for SE, and stands to be a ...
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Text Book and Paper Recommendations
Can we ask questions looking for text book recommendations and suggestions for academic papers in certain fields of economics in the Economics proposal?
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Natural Science
Proposal: History of Science And Mathematics
So far the followers of History of Science and Mathematics are dominated by physicists and mathematicians, and the questions largely reflect their ...
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How do we actually change the name?
Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
There have been several possible different names proposed in this question, to replace "Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education".
My ...
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Newcomers: Please upvote example questions
Proposal: Economics
Message to any new readers.
To make this proposal go to the next stage, we need more example questions with 10 or more upvotes.
So please go through and use your five upvotes ...
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How is Puzzling different from Math?
Proposal: Puzzling
I see that most of the proposed questions ask for proofs and algorithms. That sort of questions would be welcome in Math. In fact it's faq mentions "solving mathematical questions"....
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Similar Q&A site (and why we can do better)
Proposal: Aviation
Note that there is already an OSQA site that has a similar scope (Circle to Land) - there's some good content there but it's devolved into a spam pit from lack of maintenance/...
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Is it good for AI.SE to overlap significantly with other SE sites? Should the amount overlap be reduced?
Proposal: Artificial Intelligence
I have a few concerns about the AI proposal.
1. The site content doesn't match the description.
The AI.SE proposal has the description
Beta Q&A site for ...
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What to expect after reaching 200 commiters
Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
Based on this question and answer, beta proposals are generally started on a Wednesday or Tuesday a week after the proposal reaches 200 ...
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I want to commit to game theory proposal but
Proposal: Game Theory
Are questions on topics in operational research/optimal control/optimal stopping welcome here? The current definition is rather narrow and I want to know the answer to these ...
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Are free-time astronomers welcome?
Will the Astronomy QA site be targeted for hobby/free-time astronomers also?
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Notice on old closed site, about new proposed site? Invite to commit?
Proposal: Astronomy
There seems to be a gulf between the old, closed Astronomy site, and this new, up and coming Astronomy proposal. Can't someone put a link on the old site to point to the new? ...
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Epidemiology is on-topic at Medical Sciences
Proposal: Epidemiology
Epidemiology is on-topic at Medical Sciences Stack Exchange. The epidemiology tag there currently has 64 questions.
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Wildlife is On-Topic at The Great Outdoors
Proposal: Wildlife
The Great Outdoors SE has a wildlife tag, and it seems to be a fairly active tag, judging by the current questions
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How does this differ from physics.se?
Proposal: physical theories
It looks to me like everything on-topic for this proposed site would be on-topic for physics.stackexchange.com -- except for the "discussion" bit, which is off-topic ...
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Which site would be most suitable for rhetorics subjects?
I have a series of question I would like to ask related to rhetorics, debating and general techniques for persuasion. They range from quickly identifying logical fallacies to rhetorical semantics to ...
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Science Books a duplicate of Writers?
Proposal: Science Books
We already have Writers.SE, which ought to help with most aspects of writing, including those of writing science-related books. And most questions about the science about one ...
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Will history of medicine be on topic?
Example questions:
"Who, if anyone, prior to Blalock and Thomas attempted open heart surgery?"
"Between Galen and the Renaissance (say 1450AD), what evidence do we have for how Galenic humorism was ...
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Creating research paper study groups
Proposal: Open Science
I would like to know whether creating study groups for individual research papers will come under the scope of Open Science site? Actually my question is similar to :...
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More followers wanted!
Proposal: History of Science And Mathematics
The number of new followers per day seems to be dropping. At this rate, we'll likely make it to the required 60, but it would be nice not to scrape past. ...
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Any reasons you would disagree this being a valid sub-category of Chemistry.SE and/or Biology.SE?
Proposal: Laboratory Techniques and Safety
When I saw the proposal "Laboratory Techniques and Safety", something told me that it might be a valid sub-category at Chemistry.SE.
To be sure I wasn't ...
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What is the scope of solar energy science and economy?
Some of the students involved in either Solar Challenge U, Planet Stewardship Research, or TranSeed Labs indicated that they wanted to begin a Solar Energy Science and Economy Q&A site.
Being a ...
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Do we need an official statistics Stack Overflow? Isn't the statistics “Cross Validated” board enough?
Just to throw this out there: is it better to latch onto one of these established boards for statistics, and encourage people to ask questions there, rather than trying to establish a whole new board.....
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What about a site for Maple
There is a site for Mathematica which seems very active. Maple does have Mapleprimes.com which is a whole mix of stuff and not so active. I'd think that both systems get wide use.
I have my own ...
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How many experts do we have here?
Proposal: Economics
Economics is a domain that will require expert knowledge. Do we have any professional or academic economists here?
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How can the proposal definition for Postgrad Mathematics be improved?
Right now, the proposal definition for this site says that it's for the questions that don't fit Mathematics and don't fit Mathematica. This isn't a good definition for a site, considering that a ...
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Why not fitting in Physics site?
Proposal: Computational Fluid Dynamics
I wonder why is this not part of the Physic site (https://physics.stackexchange.com/tour). That is, why does it need a specialized site?
Pure programming ...
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Bug with verifying email addresses
Proposal: Materials Modeling
On one hand there is the bug which causes people's Area51 accounts not to link properly with their StackExchange Network profiles:
Persistent bugs hindering users from ...
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Places to meet other members and have discussions about our Stack Exchange
Proposal: Materials Modeling
As we are rapidly reaching the requirements to launch our Private Beta site, people may wish to know where they can have open discussions about this site with other ...
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Has anyone studied other potential Area51 criteria, that might be a better indication of a site's potential success?
I have looked at some of the most recent proposals that managed to survive the gruelling Area 51 processes. I will use the short form: q/d = questions/day (I'm trying to fit everythin on one line each)...
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What is the most relevant stack for GNSS (GPS, Glonass, Galileo…) questions?
Is there a stack that encompasses GNSS (e.g. GPS) technologies. I see:
GIS,
Electrical Engineering,
Space Exploration,
Ham Radio,
possibly other...
are related, but it's difficult to imagine ...
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Why is this question not shown up on its proposal?
This question, Network-related tags on existing sites, does not shown up in its proposal, Complex Networks, regardless of its score of 4. Why is that?
Proposal: Complex Networks
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This seems to be extremely narrow in scope - could these questions fit well on CogSci.SE?
Proposal: Neuroeconomics
Cognitive Sciences already has a tag for neurology with 37 questions and neurology is specifically listed as being on topic in their site description.
Cognitive Sciences ...
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Is the geology proposal redundant to the Earth Science one?
Proposal: geology
Is this redundant to Earth Science?
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Possible overlap of Empirical Research proposal with Cross Validated site
Proposal: Empirical Research
Is all of this already covered sufficiently by the Cross Validated site?
Until I checked its tags, I wasn’t aware that survey and experiment design would be on topic ...
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What tags should 'Materials Modeling' use?
Proposal: Materials Modeling
A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions. Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question....
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Numerical methods a duplicate of computational science
Proposal: Numerical Methods
Proposal: Computational science
Is numerical methods a duplicate of computational science, which is in beta here: https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/ ?
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A proposal scope?
I go straight. I think that there should be another website (xxxxx.stackexchange.com) where you can tell some symptoms for your disease and people with more information with biology may answer you.
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Be careful with your draft work you plan on publishing
Its great when a community wants to help out and proof a paper for you. Just be careful when advertising your pre-published work. You could get scooped by somebody else.
This point should probably ...
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Would questions and answers of exoplanetary atmospheres be on-topic?
Proposal: Astronomy
This is one of my specialist fields of research, I know there is a similar question asked here for the Geoscience proposal; however, I am referring to the detection, composition ...
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How is this proposed site different from the epidemiology SE proposal?
Proposal: Disease
I think there's too much overlap between this and the epidemiology SE proposal.
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Please can a moderator delete my “unregistered user” commitment so I can register using my StackExchange account?
Proposal: Chemistry
I accidentally committed to the above proposal as an "unregistered user" (see this question). There seems to be no way for me to undo this. Since this proposal will likely go into ...
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Can we leave comments when downvoting sample questions?
Proposal: Computational Fluid Dynamics
We are currently in the defining phase of the proposal. I've added a question, and I received a couple of downvotes (and upvotes). What bothers me with downvotes ...
