Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’?
by icebraining on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:31AM
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I'd bet every country has more people asking questions than answering them.
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Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’?
by superflyguy on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:57AM
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Yes but the ratio is different. Americans produce most of the most popular services even if most Americans consume rather than create them.
Stack overflow generally has more than one answer per question, so probably not. People more likely up vote an existing question.
No way. Even on Stack Overflow the ratio of answers to questions is below 1.
Yup, found it:
select 1000 * (select count() from Posts where PostTypeId = 1 and AnswerCount = 0) / (select count() from Posts where PostTypeId = 1);
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new
=> 132 for me.
so 132 answers for 1000 questions, on average.
You're looking at popular questions, that have a ton of answers. But the long tail is huge and most of those questions have 0/1 answers, most likely 0.