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		emw on June 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: StackOverflow unwinding? It would be interesting to see empirical data on William Edwards's hypotheses, e.g. "Questions are getting fewer and fewer quality answers. Moderators and 'close this' clickers are getting increasingly narrow." An analysis like this might be feasible with Stack Exchange's API: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs.

NickLarsen on June 19, 2012 | [–]

Or you could use the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/queries

pestaa on June 19, 2012 | [–]

But the first question is obvious: how do you measure quality? Votes are primarily for popularity, not quality.

nathan_long on June 19, 2012 | [–]

One way would be "mean time to an accepted answer."

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