Timeline for How can a nonacademic with research level questions know which questions are research level?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://mathoverflow.net/ with https://mathoverflow.net/
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:19 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://math.stackexchange.com/ with https://math.stackexchange.com/
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| Jan 28, 2015 at 21:26 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @David: I'll have you know that grandma's fish scooter is one of my favorite dishes! :-) | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 17:37 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | @PyRulez I should point out that I ask quite a few questions which are hard for me on math.stackexchange, just because I know that they are not "up to snuff" for MO. One can profitably use both sites for their respective purposes. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 11:28 | vote | accept | Christopher King | ||
| Jan 28, 2015 at 8:04 | comment | added | Tobias Kildetoft | It may also be good to note that one cannot always judge if a question will be well-received based on previous questions if those questions are old enough (not that you are doing that here, it is just a general comment). I have a feeling my first question here would not have been received nearly as well today for example (nor possibly some of my other early questions). | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 3:35 | answer | added | Todd TrimbleMod | timeline score: 26 | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 3:23 | comment | added | The Masked Avenger | "research level" is a code phrase for "acceptable to most of the MO community", and is a characteristic that changes over time. Learn by doing, and take closures and criticisms as feedback, and not as social censure. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 1:14 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | Part of it is recognising what is a grammatical statement in the language of research mathematics, another part of it is recognising that the statement is meaningful ("I ate grandma's fish scooter" is a grammatical sentence but is pretty meaningless), and a third part is being able to make some sort of Bayesian judgment that the question is a sensible thing to ask (for instance: "is my proof of Riemann using my proof of Goldbach correct?" is not sensible, because the answer, almost surely, will be no, with nothing learned by anyone). Each of these requires familiarity that comes from use/time. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 23:12 | comment | added | Christopher King | @ToddTrimble I am not always mature? | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 23:09 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | Wow, you're in high school? Your responses seem very mature. I'm not sure about the "research level" though of your popular question -- it just happens sometimes that a question tickles the fancy of users. Your question here by the way is a tough one. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 22:53 | history | asked | Christopher King | CC BY-SA 3.0 |